Causes and Underlying Factors of Faltering Growth Among Infants

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Total Enrollment

100 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2017-10-01

Study Completion Date

2018-09-30

Brief Summary

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to research in the different causes of failure to thrive in children including organic and non organic causes

Detailed Description

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Altered growth velocity in infants has been traditionally described by the term (failure to thrive ) . More recently the preferred terms are faltering growth ,slow weight gain or undernourishment as failure to thrive has been associated with negative connotations of parents failing in their job as careproviders.

The expression 'to falter' means to hesitate. Faltering growth is an observation,without value judgement, of slower than expected rate of growth along an infant's previously defined growth curve.

Faltering growth is a common pediatric problem with many untoward effects . More studies showed that children who failed to thrive in infancy are lighter and shorter at school age with adverse intellectual outcomes (corbett and drewett,2004)(Natale etal., 2014). Weight faltering in the first months of life is particularly associated with these adverse effects.

Infants with faltering growth also have a higher prevalence of feeding problems (Young etal., 2013).Growth failure is more common during infancy than during any other stage of life because programmed growth rates and nutritional needs are high (

Conditions

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Infants Aged One Month to 2 Years , Infants With Any Type of Feeding (Breast or Artificial or Weaned Attend Assiut University Children Hospital )

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Interventions

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complete blood count , electrolytes

it is a labarotory test to assess hemoglobin white blood count plate let

Intervention Type DIAGNOSTIC_TEST

Other Intervention Names

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urine analysis

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

:Infants attending assiut university children hospital who are stunting(decrease height for age ), wasting(decrease weight for lenght ), and underweight (decreases weight for age ) . When all of theses less than -1 Z scores (normal Z-score from -1 to +1 ) . Also mid arm circumference below than 115 mm

Exclusion Criteria

Children complaining of any of the follolowing:

* Malignancy

Minimum Eligible Age

1 Month

Maximum Eligible Age

2 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Responsible Party

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marina asem shafic

principal investigator

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Other Identifiers

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IRB00008717

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id