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Methods: Clinical descriptive retrospective analysis of neonatal somatometry at birth and at two-year corrected age in VLBW preterm infants. Small for gestational age were excluded. Two cohorts (2002\u20132006, n = 112; and 2013\u20132017, n = 92) were compared. Results. In the second five-year period, a decrease in prevalence of PGF was observed (36.6% vs. 22.8%, p = 0.033), an increase in growth rate in the first 28 days (5.22 (4.35\u20136.09) g\/kg\/day vs. 11.38 (10.61\u201312.15) g\/kg\/day, p &lt; 0.0001) and an increase in height standard deviation (SD) at 2 years (\u22121.12 (\u22121.35\u2013\u22120.91) vs. \u22120.74 (\u22120.99\u2013\u22120.49) p = 0.023). Probability of short stature at 2 years was directly related to daily weight gain in the first 28 days. Conclusions: when comparing two five-year periods in the last two decades, growth in VLBW preterm infants has improved, both during neonatal period and at two years of age.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/children9121800","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,11,24]],"date-time":"2022-11-24T01:46:56Z","timestamp":1669254416000},"page":"1800","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Postnatal Growth Faltering: Growth and Height Improvement at Two Years in Children with Very Low Birth Weight between 2002\u20132017"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"9","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7231-2383","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Lara","family":"Gonz\u00e1lez-Garc\u00eda","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Pediatrics Department, Hospital \u00c1lvarez-Buylla, 33600 Mieres, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6770-8263","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Laura","family":"Mantec\u00f3n-Fern\u00e1ndez","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Pediatrics Department, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, 33011 Oviedo, Spain"},{"name":"Instituto Investigaci\u00f3n Sanitaria Principado de Asturias, ISPA, 33011 Oviedo, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5682-9083","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Marta","family":"Su\u00e1rez-Rodr\u00edguez","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Pediatrics Department, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, 33011 Oviedo, Spain"},{"name":"Instituto Investigaci\u00f3n Sanitaria Principado de Asturias, ISPA, 33011 Oviedo, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Rosa","family":"Arias-Llorente","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Pediatrics Department, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, 33011 Oviedo, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9692-6526","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sonia","family":"Lareu-Vidal","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Pediatrics Department, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, 33011 Oviedo, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Aleida","family":"Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez-Fern\u00e1ndez","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Pediatrics Department, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, 33011 Oviedo, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0153-3354","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mar\u00eda","family":"Caunedo-Jim\u00e9nez","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Pediatrics Department, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, 33011 Oviedo, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Clara","family":"Gonz\u00e1lez-L\u00f3pez","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Pediatrics Department, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, 33011 Oviedo, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Eva","family":"Fern\u00e1ndez-Mor\u00e1n","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Pediatrics Department, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, 33011 Oviedo, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Bel\u00e9n","family":"Fern\u00e1ndez-Colomer","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Pediatrics Department, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, 33011 Oviedo, Spain"},{"name":"Instituto Investigaci\u00f3n Sanitaria Principado de Asturias, ISPA, 33011 Oviedo, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0363-831X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Gonzalo","family":"Sol\u00eds-S\u00e1nchez","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Pediatrics Department, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, 33011 Oviedo, Spain"},{"name":"Instituto Investigaci\u00f3n Sanitaria Principado de Asturias, ISPA, 33011 Oviedo, Spain"},{"name":"Medical Department, University of Oviedo, 33003 Oviedo, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,11,23]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2443","DOI":"10.1080\/14767058.2018.1438398","article-title":"The mortality of very low birth weight infants: The benefit and relative impact of changes in population and therapeutic variables","volume":"32","author":"Boyko","year":"2019","journal-title":"J. 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