Evaluating the seasonality of growth in infants using a mobile phone application.
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SUBMITTER: Narumi S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7578091 | biostudies-literature | 2020
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Evaluating the seasonality of growth in infants using a mobile phone application.
Narumi Satoshi S Ohnuma Tetsu T Takehara Kenji K Morisaki Naho N Urayama Kevin Y KY Hattori Tomoyuki T
NPJ digital medicine 20201021
It has been observed that growth velocity of toddlers and school children shows seasonal variation, while such seasonality is unknown in infants. The aim of this study was to examine whether growth velocity (length and weight) of infants differs by seasons. We assessed longitudinal measurement data obtained for 9,409 Japanese infants whose parents used the mobile phone application, "Papatto Ikuji", during the period from January 2014 to October 2017. On average, each infant had 4.8 entries for l ...[more]
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