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We analyzed 20,007 \u0394LAZ\/day (mean, \u22120.0022) and 33,236 \u0394WAZ\/day (mean, 0.0005) measurements, and found that \u0394LAZ\/day showed seasonal differences with increases during summer. We conducted a multilevel linear regression analysis, in which effects of age, sex, nutrition and season of birth were adjusted, showing significant difference in \u0394LAZ\/day between winter and summer with a mean \u0394LAZ\/day difference of 0.0026 (95%CI 0.0015 to 0.0036; <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009&lt;\u20090.001). This seasonal difference corresponded to 13% of the average linear growth velocity in 6-month-old infants. A modest effect of nutrition on linear growth was observed with a mean \u0394LAZ\/day difference of 0.0015 (95%CI 0.0006 to 0.0025; <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009&lt;\u20090.001) between predominantly formula-fed infants and breastfed infants. In conclusion, we observed that linear growth, but not weight gain, of Japanese infants showed significant seasonality effects represented by increases in summer and decreases in winter.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1038\/s41746-020-00345-9","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,10,21]],"date-time":"2020-10-21T10:04:15Z","timestamp":1603274655000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Evaluating the seasonality of growth in infants using a mobile phone application"],"prefix":"10.1038","volume":"3","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0940-4517","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Satoshi","family":"Narumi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2303-6802","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Tetsu","family":"Ohnuma","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Kenji","family":"Takehara","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Naho","family":"Morisaki","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Kevin Y.","family":"Urayama","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Tomoyuki","family":"Hattori","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,10,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"345_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"70","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1651-2227.1989.tb11199.x","volume":"350","author":"J Karlberg","year":"1989","unstructured":"Karlberg, J. 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