There is epidemiological evidence that links LBW and adverse fetal growth to an elevated risk of the metabolic ... based on cohorts of infants born term rather than preterm. In studies with ...

Reduced parenteral glucose during neonatal infection redirects hepatic metabolism to oxidative phosphorylation and gluconeogenesis, dampens systemic proinflammatory responses, and significantly ...

physiological acidosis. Infants with intrauterine growth retardation and preterm birth are at risk for hypocalcemia or hypomagnesemia. Often asymptomatic they can be undiscovered and untreated.

To date, there is a considerable paucity of information regarding the long-term metabolic and molecular ... anatomical differences between preterm and term neonates, little has been published ...