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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Mar 18.
Published in final edited form as: Res Rep Neonatol. 2018 Oct 8;8:53–63. doi: 10.2147/rrn.s165421

Figure 6. Linear model of Age Trend.

Figure 6

An example of how the preterm profile “catches up” to the full-term profile. Note that the linear fit for preterm infants is increasingly poor as PMA increases, because the rapid maturation rate seen in the newborn preterm infants slows as they gradually become more normal in their feeding behavior.