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AAP Grand Rounds 21:9 (2009)
© 2009 American Academy of Pediatrics

GASTROENTEROLOGY

Constipation and Growth: Something New to Consider

Source: Chao HC, Chen SY, Chen CC, et al. The impact of constipation on growth in children. Pediatric Research. 2008;64(3):308–311; doi:10.1203/PDR.0b013e31817995aa[CrossRef][Medline]

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Between 2002 and 2006 investigators from Chang Gung University College of Medicine in Taiwan studied the influence of constipation and therapy of constipation on growth of children aged one to 15 years.


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Question: Does successful treatment of constipation in otherwise healthy children improve appetite and growth?

Question type: Intervention

Study design: Concurrent cohort study

 

Constipation was defined as hard stools, difficult defecation, or frequency of defecation less than three times in a week for more than one month. Patients with known gastrointestinal or other chronic diseases were excluded. Age-matched healthy children visiting a nutrition clinic were enrolled as controls.

All children were monitored for 24 weeks. Constipation was treated with oral magnesium oxide. Children with only fair or poor response to treatment by 12 weeks (defined as duration of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Barbara Robinson, MPH, RD and Neal LeLeiko, MD, PhD, FAAP
Pediatric Gastroenterology, Nutrition, and Liver Disease, Rhode Island Hospital and Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI