Perinatal Nutrition and Metabolism Club

Monday, April 28, 2025

12:40pm – 1:55pm HST

Location: Convention Center: 311

CE: 1.5

Chair(s)

Gustave Falciglia, MD, MSCI, MSHQPS

Assistant Professor of Neonatology & Pediatrics
Northwestern University The Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Cynthia Blanco, MD

Professor of Pediatrics
Pediatrics
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine
San Antonio, Texas, United States

Disclosure(s):

Gustave H. Falciglia, MD, MSCI, MSHQPS: Medical Predictive Science Corporation (MPSC) (Ongoing) (Products/Services: Research Support including clinical trials & the principal or named investigator)

Cynthia L. Blanco, MD: Baxter (Ongoing) (Products/Services: Research Support including clinical trials & the principal or named investigator, Speaker Honorarium including speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness); Prolacta Bioscience (Ongoing) (Products/Services: Research Support including clinical trials & the principal or named investigator)

Preterm infants are born at a nutritional disadvantage compared to term infants. Their nutrient supply from the mother is abruptly interrupted during the third trimester critical period and they have faltering growth when compared to the fetus of equivalent gestational age. Growth is critically important for preterm infants because it is associated with improved long term outcomes; the relationships between anthropometrics and body composition are still poorly understood. Increases in fat-free mass and fat mass are associated with outcomes such as neurodevelopment and metabolic syndrome; however, measuring change in weight does not discriminate between fat and fat-free mass. Dr. Ramel will review body composition and its measurement in infants. She will discuss how the maternal antenatal period and postnatal nutrition affect body composition, and how body composition is associated with metabolic and developmental outcomes.

Learning Objectives:

Define body composition in neonates and the various methods to measure body composition including pros and cons of each approach.
Discuss prenatal and postnatal factors that influence body composition outcomes
Describe the associations between body composition with metabolic and neurodevelopmental outcomes

Presentations:

12:40pm – 1:55pm HST

Body Composition in the Neonate
Speaker: Sara E. Ramel, MD – University of Minnesota Masonic Children's Hospital