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S3 Ep39: 39. Failure to Thrive: Growing into Focused Management

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The Importance of Weight in the Growth Chart

When an expert like yourself looks at the growth chart, what are they looking at or what are some tips to the approach that data? Yeah. What's fun is when I get medical students on rounds with me on hospital medicine, a lot of times they'll have gone through the nursery before they see me. It's just very analogous to the way we think about newborn infants too. That concept of somebody who is small for gestational age because of their weight,. but you can't have it for a different parameter, one of the other growth parameters. If something's wrong with head circumference size, that is concerning if it's not being spared for other underlying condition.

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