Boontan Naiyana, Rojnueangnit Kitiwan
Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Thammasat University, Pathum Thani, Thailand.
J Pediatr Genet. 2021 Mar;10(1):16-22. doi: 10.1055/s-0040-1713432. Epub 2020 Jun 30.
Specific growth charts for children with Down syndrome (DS) have been developed in several countries, but not in Thailand. This pilot study aims to develop growth patterns for Thai children with DS, which will help clinicians to improve assessment and monitoring of the growth patterns for these children. A retrospective review of 80 children with DS who received care at Thammasat University Hospital between 2014 and 2018 was conducted. A total of 1,681 length/height and weight measurements were collected. Four sex-specific growth patterns of length/height and weight were generated with the fifth, 50th, and 95th percentile. The children with DS were lower in weight and shorter than general Thai children and children with DS in other countries. Therefore, each country should develop individual DS growth charts.
几个国家已经制定了唐氏综合征(DS)儿童的特定生长图表,但泰国尚未制定。这项试点研究旨在制定泰国DS儿童的生长模式,这将有助于临床医生改进对这些儿童生长模式的评估和监测。对2014年至2018年间在泰国法政大学医院接受治疗的80名DS儿童进行了回顾性研究。总共收集了1681次身长/身高和体重测量数据。用第5、第50和第95百分位数生成了四种性别特异性的身长/身高和体重生长模式。DS儿童的体重比一般泰国儿童轻,身高也比其他国家的DS儿童矮。因此,每个国家都应该制定各自的DS生长图表。