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“Failure To Thrive” in Older Adults
Annals of Internal Medicine, 1996The term "failure to thrive" is frequently used to describe older adults whose independence is declining. The term was exported from pediatrics in the 1970s and is used to describe older adults with various concurrent chronic diseases, functional impairments, or both.
C A, Sarkisian, M S, Lachs
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Failure-to-Thrive and Behavior
Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 1976Sir .—Pollitt and Eichler reported a higher prevalence of atypical behavior in failure-to-thrive children (age 12 to 60 months) than in a contrast group of normal-growth children ( Am J Dis Child 130:24, 1976). They summarized their observations: "The number of index children exhibiting atypical behaviors...
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Clinical Pediatrics, 1989
The term "failure to thrive" (FTT) has been used for more than 50 years to describe the infant or young child whose growth falls substantially behind that of his or her peers. Currently, the predominant use of FTT is to describe a child's growth failure resulting from caloric or maternal deprivation or both. Despite widespread use, the term FTT lacks a
W D, Wilcox, P, Nieburg, D S, Miller
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The term "failure to thrive" (FTT) has been used for more than 50 years to describe the infant or young child whose growth falls substantially behind that of his or her peers. Currently, the predominant use of FTT is to describe a child's growth failure resulting from caloric or maternal deprivation or both. Despite widespread use, the term FTT lacks a
W D, Wilcox, P, Nieburg, D S, Miller
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Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology, 2002
Optimal nutrition in early infancy is the success behind good health, growth, and development of children. This article presents an overview of failure to thrive in children younger than 2 years of age. This article reviews normal growth, growth indices, common etiology, and an approach to evaluation and management of failure to thrive.
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Optimal nutrition in early infancy is the success behind good health, growth, and development of children. This article presents an overview of failure to thrive in children younger than 2 years of age. This article reviews normal growth, growth indices, common etiology, and an approach to evaluation and management of failure to thrive.
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Postgraduate Medicine, 1964
Because many factors can affect physical growth of children at all levels of maturation, careful evaluation of each child is necessary to assure proper diagnosis and management.It is the physician's responsibility to decide whether poor growth results from an underlying disease which is not clinically evident or represents a purely normal genetic ...
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Because many factors can affect physical growth of children at all levels of maturation, careful evaluation of each child is necessary to assure proper diagnosis and management.It is the physician's responsibility to decide whether poor growth results from an underlying disease which is not clinically evident or represents a purely normal genetic ...
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Pediatrics, 1971
I note with interest the Commentary of your November issue1 with regard to the concept of failure to thrive. I think that the effort at elucidation and definition of this concept is much to be commended. I would like, however, to underline the frequency with which this description is met in infants who are suffering from surgical ...
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I note with interest the Commentary of your November issue1 with regard to the concept of failure to thrive. I think that the effort at elucidation and definition of this concept is much to be commended. I would like, however, to underline the frequency with which this description is met in infants who are suffering from surgical ...
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Failure to Thrive in the Elderly
Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 1995Failure to thrive in the elderly is a syndrome and not a diagnosis. It encompasses a number of conditions characterized by progressive weight loss and decrease in function. For purposes of diagnosis and treatment, failure to thrive can be divided into nonorganic and organic causes.
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Paediatric Nursing, 2002
Monitoring of growth in early life is particularly important as growth is elastic and sensitive to environmental factors, especially nutrition. Deficits are unlikely to be recovered fully in a later period and early growth patterns contribute to many diseases of adulthood.
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Monitoring of growth in early life is particularly important as growth is elastic and sensitive to environmental factors, especially nutrition. Deficits are unlikely to be recovered fully in a later period and early growth patterns contribute to many diseases of adulthood.
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Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 1984
Abstract Non‐organic failure to thrive is a clinical diagnosis which should be considered in parallel with other causes of failure to thrive in infants. It has not been resolved as to whether the condition is due to a lack of stimulation or to deprivation of calories, although both these factors, as well as a contribution from the child in some cases,
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Abstract Non‐organic failure to thrive is a clinical diagnosis which should be considered in parallel with other causes of failure to thrive in infants. It has not been resolved as to whether the condition is due to a lack of stimulation or to deprivation of calories, although both these factors, as well as a contribution from the child in some cases,
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Journal of Home Health Care Practice, 1993
We are privileged to be able to present this article to our readers. The author had sent us the manuscript and when we reviewed it we felt that the information was textbook in nature and very current. We found out later that the information is also published in the Handbook forPediatric Nutzition, Queen Samour P, and Lang C, eds., Gaithersburg, Md ...
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We are privileged to be able to present this article to our readers. The author had sent us the manuscript and when we reviewed it we felt that the information was textbook in nature and very current. We found out later that the information is also published in the Handbook forPediatric Nutzition, Queen Samour P, and Lang C, eds., Gaithersburg, Md ...
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