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Anita Sumpter
- University of Auckland
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Predicting Weight Using Postmenstrual Age
January 28, 2011
Authors Anita L Sumpter (1), Nick Holford (2)
Affiliations (1) Department of Anaesthesiology, University of Auckland School of Medicine, Auckland, New Zealand, (2) Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Auckland School of Medicine, Auckland, New Zealand
Presentation type Oral
Objectives: To describe the pattern and variability of body weight with postmenstrual age (PMA) using nonlinear mixed effect modeling (NONMEM) to create a single mathematical function that can be used from prematurity to adulthood. Background: Postmenstrual age has been shown to predict functional properties of humans such as glomerular filtration rate and drug clearance. Widely used growth […]