Standardization of Research-Quality Anthropometric Measurement of Infants and Implementation in a Multicenter Study

Christine Coburn-Miller; Susan Casey; Quynh Luong; Natalia Cameron; Jasna Hocevar-Trnka; Daniel H Leung; Daniel Gelfond; James E Heubi; Bonnie Ramsey; Drucy Borowitz

doi:10.1111/cts.12283

Standardization of Research-Quality Anthropometric Measurement of Infants and Implementation in a Multicenter Study

Clin Transl Sci. 2015 Aug;8(4):330-3. doi: 10.1111/cts.12283. Epub 2015 Jun 5.

Authors

Christine Coburn-Miller¹, Susan Casey², Quynh Luong³, Natalia Cameron³, Jasna Hocevar-Trnka³, Daniel H Leung⁴, Daniel Gelfond⁵, James E Heubi⁶, Bonnie Ramsey^{2

3

7}, Drucy Borowitz^{1

8}

Affiliations

¹ Women and Children's Hospital of Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA.
² Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, Washington, USA.
³ Therapeutics Development Network Coordinating Center, Seattle, Washington, USA.
⁴ Texas Children's Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.
⁵ University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA.
⁶ Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
⁷ University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
⁸ State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA.

Abstract

Malnutrition is one of the earliest clinical manifestations of cystic fibrosis (CF) and is associated with poorer pulmonary and cognitive outcomes and survival later in life. Infant growth can be a responsive measure for clinical research in this age group if obtained and characterized accurately. We report here the methods to standardize and implement research-quality anthropometric measurement of infants with cystic fibrosis in the Baby Observational Nutrition Study multicenter trial.

Keywords: anthropometrics; cystic fibrosis; infants; methodology; nutrition.

Publication types

Multicenter Study
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Biomedical Research / standards
Body Height*
Body Weight*
Cystic Fibrosis / physiopathology*
Head / anatomy & histology
Humans
Infant