TY - JOUR
T1 - Anthropometric indicators of human immunodeficiency virus infection in infants with early and late symptoms in the first months of life
AU - Agostoni, C.
AU - Riva, E.
AU - Giannì, M. L.
AU - Silano, M.
AU - Giovannini, M.
AU - Zuccotti, G. V.
PY - 1998
Y1 - 1998
N2 - Standardised growth indices (Z-scores of weight-for-age, WA, length- for-age, LA, weight-for-length, WL, according to the reference data of the World Health Organization) have been compared for the first 4 months of life among 119 infants born to mothers affected by the type-1 human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Infants were subdivided according to their HIV serostatus and the clinical expression of the disease. Uninfected status (n = 92), late (≤6 months, n = 18) and early (≤3 months, n = 9) onset of symptoms among the HIV infected defined three groups. Infants with early symptoms showed the lowest median WA and LA Z-scores at all times and the LA difference with their uninfected counterparts was already significant at birth. Infants with late symptoms showed early differences in WL and then in WA also compared with the uninfected ones. A
AB - Standardised growth indices (Z-scores of weight-for-age, WA, length- for-age, LA, weight-for-length, WL, according to the reference data of the World Health Organization) have been compared for the first 4 months of life among 119 infants born to mothers affected by the type-1 human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Infants were subdivided according to their HIV serostatus and the clinical expression of the disease. Uninfected status (n = 92), late (≤6 months, n = 18) and early (≤3 months, n = 9) onset of symptoms among the HIV infected defined three groups. Infants with early symptoms showed the lowest median WA and LA Z-scores at all times and the LA difference with their uninfected counterparts was already significant at birth. Infants with late symptoms showed early differences in WL and then in WA also compared with the uninfected ones. A
KW - HIV-infected infants
KW - HIV-uninfected infants
KW - Infant growth
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U2 - 10.1007/s004310050941
DO - 10.1007/s004310050941
M3 - Article
C2 - 9809819
AN - SCOPUS:0031655433
VL - 157
SP - 811
EP - 813
JO - European Journal of Pediatrics
JF - European Journal of Pediatrics
SN - 0340-6199
IS - 10
ER -