Nutrition practice, compliance to guidelines and postnatal growth in moderately premature babies: the NUTRIQUAL French survey

Table 4 Z-scores and ΔZ-scores in 276 preterm infants born 30–33 weeks of gestation

	Birth Z-score	Z-score 36 weeks PCA/DC	ΔZ-score^a	p^b
Weight (mean ± SD)	−0.17 ± 0.88	−1.00 ± 0.82	−0.80 ± 0.47	<0.0001
Length (mean ± SD)	−0.21 ± 1.14	−1.12 ± 1.09	−0.90 ± 0.91	<0.0001
Head Circumference (mean ± SD)	0.04 ± 1.04	−0.41 ± 0.92	−0.41 ± 0.74	<0.0001

^aΔZ-score from birth to 36 weeks PCA/DC. ^bZ-score 36 weeks PCA/DC versus Birth Z-score (ANOVA for repeated measures)

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