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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Apr 19.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Perinatol. 2016 May 2;33(14):1371–1376. doi: 10.1055/s-0036-1583187

Table 3.

Parental responses to question 2: “Did your child’s doctor ever tell you that your child is gaining weight too fast or is overweight?”

Term cohort (n = 1,263 encounters) Preterm cohort (n = 94 encounters) p-Value
Yes No Yes No
All participants (%) 6 94 7 93 0.577
w/l ≤ 5th percentile (%) 11 89 0 100 0.789
w/l 6th to 94th percentile (%) 3 97 5 95 0.468
w/l ≥ 95th percentile (%) 17 83 27 73 0.447

Note: w/l, measured weight-for-length of child; w/l ≤ 5th percentile, underweight; w/l 6th to 94th percentile, healthy weight; w/l ≥ 95th percentile, overweight.