OBJECTIVE: To determine the pattern of body composition and nutritional status in a group of prepubertal children with spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy (SQCP) compared with healthy control children. STUDY DESIGN: Subjects were enrolled for this cross-sectional study from two tertiary care settings. One hundred thirty-six subjects with SQCP, 2 to 12 years of age, were evaluated by anthropometric measures, or by anthropometric and total body water (TBW) measures (n = 28), with 39 control subjects. RESULTS: Body composition and nutritional status indicators were significantly reduced in children with SQCP. Accretion of fat-free mass with age was smaller for children with SQCP. Calculation of body fat from two skin folds correlated best with measures of fat mass from TBW. CONCLUSION: Malnutrition is common in children with SQCP. Clinically available, serial anthropometric measures enable the clinician to identify malnourished children with SQCP.
%0 Journal Article
%1 Stallings1995
%A Stallings, V. A.
%A Cronk, C. E.
%A Zemel, B. S.
%A Charney, E. B.
%D 1995
%J J Pediatr
%K Age Factors; Anthropometry; Body Composition; Water; Case-Control Studies; Cerebral Palsy; Child; Child Nutrition Disorders; Child, Preschool; Cross-Sectional Enteral Nutrition; Female; Humans; Male; Nutritional Status; Quadriplegia; Regression Analysis; Skinfold Thickness; Spasm
%N 5 Pt 1
%P 833--839
%T Body composition in children with spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy.
%V 126
%X OBJECTIVE: To determine the pattern of body composition and nutritional status in a group of prepubertal children with spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy (SQCP) compared with healthy control children. STUDY DESIGN: Subjects were enrolled for this cross-sectional study from two tertiary care settings. One hundred thirty-six subjects with SQCP, 2 to 12 years of age, were evaluated by anthropometric measures, or by anthropometric and total body water (TBW) measures (n = 28), with 39 control subjects. RESULTS: Body composition and nutritional status indicators were significantly reduced in children with SQCP. Accretion of fat-free mass with age was smaller for children with SQCP. Calculation of body fat from two skin folds correlated best with measures of fat mass from TBW. CONCLUSION: Malnutrition is common in children with SQCP. Clinically available, serial anthropometric measures enable the clinician to identify malnourished children with SQCP.
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abstract = {OBJECTIVE: To determine the pattern of body composition and nutritional status in a group of prepubertal children with spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy (SQCP) compared with healthy control children. STUDY DESIGN: Subjects were enrolled for this cross-sectional study from two tertiary care settings. One hundred thirty-six subjects with SQCP, 2 to 12 years of age, were evaluated by anthropometric measures, or by anthropometric and total body water (TBW) measures (n = 28), with 39 control subjects. RESULTS: Body composition and nutritional status indicators were significantly reduced in children with SQCP. Accretion of fat-free mass with age was smaller for children with SQCP. Calculation of body fat from two skin folds correlated best with measures of fat mass from TBW. CONCLUSION: Malnutrition is common in children with SQCP. Clinically available, serial anthropometric measures enable the clinician to identify malnourished children with SQCP.},
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author = {Stallings, V. A. and Cronk, C. E. and Zemel, B. S. and Charney, E. B.},
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keywords = {Age Factors; Anthropometry; Body Composition; Water; Case-Control Studies; Cerebral Palsy; Child; Child Nutrition Disorders; Child, Preschool; Cross-Sectional Enteral Nutrition; Female; Humans; Male; Nutritional Status; Quadriplegia; Regression Analysis; Skinfold Thickness; Spasm},
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