ESPE Abstracts

Birth chest circumference(CC) shows often, like birth gestational age(GA), tight direct relations to birth body weight(BW). However distinct connections of hypoxia/undernutrition with different body structures might be suspected based on brain-, heart- and adrenal-sparing following intrauterine growth restriction and, postnatally, on higher chest size for body mass observed at high altitude. Low BW and hypoxia may be associated with circulating Insulin-like Growth Factor-I(IG1...

Introduction: Oral/enteral caloric intake (KOE) insufficiency may accompany human newborn (NWB) respiratory derangements. We detected axillary temperature(TEMP) relations to NWB blood serum Insulin-like Growth Factor-II(IG2)-blood serum Insulin-like Growth Factor-Binding Protein-3(IB3) ratios(IG2/IB3R). Here we evaluate the TEMP-independent relevance of birth gestational age(GA) and KOE to relationships of O2 supplementation in respiratory gases(O2S) with IG2/...

Introduction: Body temperature determinants include head-brain thermal homeostatic mechanisms and, in the human newborn (NWB), birth gestational age (GA). Estimated birth brain weight (BRW) ratio to birth body weight (BW)(BBR) resulted associated with GA and blood serum Insulin-like Growth Factor (IGF)-II(IG2) ratio to blood serum IGF Binding Protein-3 (IB3)(IG2 through chronologically-corresponding IB3, IG2/IB3R) in our previous NWB observations. Here we evaluate BRW, BW, BBR...

Background: Birth chest circumference (BC) may be related to Insulin-like-Growth-Factor-I blood serum levels (IG1) in the human newborn (NWB).Objective and hypotheses: We evaluated the relevance of birth body weight (BW) to birth crown-heel length (BL) ratio (BW through BL, BW/BL) in BC relations to IG1 after control for BW for birth gestational age (GA)<=10th centile (SGA), respiratory oxygen supplementation (O2S) and assisted ventilation of any kin...

Background/objective and hypotheses: Parenteral nutrition (KIVD) relevance to known birth gestational age (GA) relations to the blood serum IG2/blood serum IGF binding protein 3 (IB3) ratio (IG2 through chronologically corresponding IB3, IG2/IB3) was studied in the not-life-threatened newborn (NWB).Method: SEX, GA (unit, complete week), postnatal age (PNA; unit, day), birth body weight (BW; unit, g), birth head circumference (HC; unit, cm), GA≤36 (...

Background/objective and hypotheses: Chest circumference (CC) is related to intrauterine growth rate as well as to development-function of respiratory system. We evaluated the relevance of birth body weight (BW) in birth CC (BC) relations to blood serum IGF1 after control for preterm birth (PTB), oxygen (O2) supplementation as %O2 in respiratory gases (O2R) and assisted ventilation of any kind (AV) in the newborn (NWB) without life-threatening ...

Direct relationships of estimated birth brain weight(BRW) to birth body weight (BW) ratios (BBR) and of BW<=10.th centile for GA(SGA) with blood serum Insulin-like Growth Factor-II(IG2) to blood serum Insulin-like Growth Factor Binding Protein-3 (IB3) ratios (IG2/IB3R), and inverse relations between BW-SDS and birth chest circumference(CC) / BW ratio (i.e., CC through BW; CC/BWR) have been detected by our group in the human newborn(NWB). We evaluated the possibility that CC...