Beck G J, van den Berg B J
J Pediatr. 1975 Apr;86(4):504-11. doi: 10.1016/s0022-3476(75)80138-7.
The relationship of the rate of intrauterine growth of low-birth-weight infants (1,501 to 2,500 gm) to their postnatal growth up to 10 years of age was investigated. Each child was assigned to one of four gestation quartiles which have identical birth weight distributions but differ widely in their length of gestation. The mean heights and weights of the children in each of the four quartiles were compared with similar data of a control group of children who had birth weights above 2,500 gm. Only infants in the long gestation quartile failed to catch up in height and weight to the control group by the end of the 10-year period. The same results that were obtained for the total cohort were also found separately for white and black children and for boys and girls. The data relate to 488 single white and black low-birth-weight infants and 488 normal-birth-weight infants.
研究了低体重婴儿（1501至2500克）宫内生长速率与其10岁前产后生长的关系。每个孩子被分配到四个妊娠四分位数组之一，这四个组的出生体重分布相同，但妊娠时长差异很大。将四个四分位数组中每个组的儿童的平均身高和体重与出生体重超过2500克的对照组儿童的类似数据进行比较。只有妊娠时长较长的四分位数组中的婴儿在10年期末时身高和体重未能赶上对照组。在整个队列中获得的相同结果在白人儿童和黑人儿童以及男孩和女孩中也分别得到了验证。数据涉及488名单胎白人及黑人低体重婴儿和488名正常体重婴儿。
