BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Preterm infants experience disproportionate growth failure postnatally and may be large weight for length despite being small weight for age by hospital discharge. The objective of this study was to create and validate intrauterine weight-for-length growth curves using the contemporary, large, racially diverse US birth parameters sample used to create the Olsen weight-...

Studies that use cross-sectional data have shown an increase in the prevalence of childhood obesity, as assessed by BMI (weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared), over the past 30 y in the United States (1). Between the 1960s and 2000 the distribution of BMI among children became more skewed, whereas between 2000 and 2010 there was relatively little change among either boys or g...