PO-0459 Fat Mass(fm) And Fat Free Mass(ffm) Indices In Preterm And Term Infants During First 6 Months Of Life

The development of normative reference Body Composition (BC) data in infancy, is an important step towards evaluation of postnatal growth in clinical practice. Weight gain fails to differentiate lean body mass (constitution) from fat mass (nutrition). Percentile ranks and length normalised indices of FFM and FM can define nutritional depletion or obesity. We present longitudinal data from a large dataset of stable growing infants. BC data (n = …