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G146 LONGITUDINAL CHANGES IN LOWER LIMB LENGTH AND TIBIAL SPEED OF SOUND IN PRETERM INFANTS: RELATIONSHIP WITH GESTATION, BIRTH WEIGHT STANDARD DEVIATION SCORE, AND BONE NUTRIENTS
J. E. Mercy¹, B. Dillon², J. Morris², A. J. B. Emmerson³, M. Z. Mughal⁴.¹Neonatal Medicine St Mary’s Hospital for Women and Children, Manchester, UK; ²Department of Medical Statisics, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK; ³Neonatal Medicine, St Mary’s Hospital for Women and Children, Manchester, UK; ⁴Paediatric Medicine, St Mary’s Hospital for Women and Children, Manchester, UK

We measured lower limb length (LLL) (mm) using an electronic neonatal knemometer and tibial speed of sound (tSOS) (m/s; related to bone mineralisation and elasticity), using the Sunlight Omnisense 7000 quantitative ultrasound device, in the same limb, weekly for a median period of four weeks (range 2–14 weeks) in 84 preterm infants. The median (range) gestation and birth weight of infants was 26.8 weeks (23–35.2 weeks) and 869.5 g (418–1481 g), respectively. Birth weight standard deviation scores (BwSDS) were negatively associated with gestation (r = –0.456; p = . . . [Full text of this article]