Assessment of Growth 6 Years after the Norwood Procedure
Phillip T Burch, Chitra Ravishankar, Jane W Newburger, Linda M Lambert, Victoria L Pemberton, Suzanne Granger, Alejandro A Floh, Jeffrey B Anderson, Garick D Hill, Kevin D Hill, Matthew E Oster, Alan B Lewis, Kurt R Schumacher, Sinai C Zyblewski, Ryan R Davies, Jeffrey P Jacobs, Wyman W Lai, L LuAnn Minich, Pediatric Heart Network Investigators, Phillip T Burch, Chitra Ravishankar, Jane W Newburger, Linda M Lambert, Victoria L Pemberton, Suzanne Granger, Alejandro A Floh, Jeffrey B Anderson, Garick D Hill, Kevin D Hill, Matthew E Oster, Alan B Lewis, Kurt R Schumacher, Sinai C Zyblewski, Ryan R Davies, Jeffrey P Jacobs, Wyman W Lai, L LuAnn Minich, Pediatric Heart Network Investigators
Abstract
At 6 years of age, patients with hypoplastic left heart syndrome had mean age-adjusted z-scores for weight and height below the normative population, and body mass index was similar to the normative population. Males had the greatest increase in z-scores for body mass index.
Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT00115934.
Keywords: growth; hypoplastic left heart syndrome; pediatrics; risk factors.
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