Sentences with phrase «normal growth curves»

Twins usually follow normal growth curves (based on singletons) until 28 - 32 weeks, then they often demonstrate more sluggish growth.

Moreover, if diarrhoea occurs frequently, there may be too little time to «catch up» on growth between episodes, the result being a flattening of the normal growth curve.

Not exact matches

However, research suggests that it is normal for babies to have shifts up or down on their growth curves within the first six months, and even up to two years of age.

This may be normal, because breastfed babies do not grow along the same growth curves as formula fed babies, and it may appear that they grow too slowly, when in fact, it is the formula fed baby who is growing too quickly.

Traditional growth charts show a child's height and weight as points on curves that are based on data from hundreds of thousands of other children, and indicate normal, near - normal and problematic development.

Helama et al. (2004a, 2005) have shown that such a major increase in population density could affect the empirically determined growth curves used in normal RCS standardization.