From: Growth of extremely low birth weight infants at a tertiary hospital in a middle-income country
Birth weight | Total number of infants | Infants with good growth (N/%) | Infants with discharge weight > 10th centile (N/%) | Median Gestational age (min - max) | Mean Delta Z-score from birth to 36 weeks (SD) | Mean number of days to regain birth weight (SD) | Mean weight velocity (SD) |
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600–699 | 3 | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 23 (23–28) | −2.8 (0.7) | 10.6 (9.2) | 11.6 (2.0) |
700–799 | 13 | 6 (46.2%) | 2 (15.4%) | 27 (24–29) | −2.1 (0.9) | 14.7 (7.4) | 14.0 (3.6) |
800–899 | 35 | 12 (34.3%) | 4 (11.4%) | 28 (25–34) | −2.0 (0.8) | 19.7 (9.4) | 14.0 (3.3) |
900–999 | 41 | 7 (17%) | 5 (12.2%) | 28 (23–32) | −2.2 (1.3) | 18.5 (11.3) | 13.0(2.8) |