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The hospital admission study population included 2139 infants, \u226424 months of age, who were admitted for any reason to the pediatric department at the Bnai Zion Medical Center in 2004\u20132005. For the community-based sample, we identified overweight infants (\u226585th weight-for-height percentile in \u22652 measurements, \u22653 months apart), \u226424 months of age, in 8 mother and child health care facilities in the Haifa subdistrict of Israel. Parents of infants were interviewed by using a structured questionnaire.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>RESULTS. We found that overweight infants (85th to 94th percentiles) had fewer admissions and fewer repeated admissions than expected. Infants of \u226595th percentile had more admissions than expected, as well as a larger number of repeated admissions. In the second part of the study, we found that rates of developmental delays (mainly delayed gross motor skills) and snoring were significantly higher in infants of \u226585th percentile. In addition, although the results were not statistically significant, infants with overweight suffered more frequently from breathing problems, such as asthma and stridor. When the mothers were asked to assess whether their child was overweight, only 31.6% of mothers of overweight children thought that the child was overweight.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>CONCLUSIONS. The high admission rates for infants of \u226595th percentile and the high incidence rates of respiratory morbidity, snoring, and delayed gross motor skills in overweight infants support our hypothesis regarding early morbidity associated with overweight.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1542\/peds.2007-2867","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2008,8,1]],"date-time":"2008-08-01T13:38:30Z","timestamp":1217597910000},"page":"267-272","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":57,"title":["Morbidity of Overweight (\u226585th Percentile) in the First 2 Years of Life"],"prefix":"10.1542","volume":"122","author":[{"given":"Rana","family":"Shibli","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatrics, Bnai Zion Medical Center, Haifa, Israel"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Lisa","family":"Rubin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Ministry of Health, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Hannah","family":"Akons","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Ministry of Health, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ron","family":"Shaoul","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatrics, Bnai Zion Medical Center, Haifa, Israel"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"417","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2008,8,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"2021120905591593000_R1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Rocchini AP. 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