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Physical and emotional development, appetite and body image in adolescents who failed to thrive as infants (2006)
Journal Article
Drewett, R., Corbett, S., & Wright, C. (2006). Physical and emotional development, appetite and body image in adolescents who failed to thrive as infants. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 47(5), 524-531. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7610.2005.01529.x

Background: Previous studies suggest that failure to thrive in infancy may be associated with adverse sequelae in childhood. Although cognitive abilities have been extensively investigated, little systematic research is available on other aspects of... Read More about Physical and emotional development, appetite and body image in adolescents who failed to thrive as infants.

Family, socio-economic and prenatal factors associated with failure to thrive in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) (2004)
Journal Article
Blair, P., Drewett, R., Emmett, P., Ness, A., Emond, A., & Team, &. T. A. S. (2004). Family, socio-economic and prenatal factors associated with failure to thrive in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC). International Journal of Epidemiology, 33(4), 839-847. https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyh100

Background The epidemiological profile of infants failing to thrive is unclear. The aim of this study is to investigate the prenatal and socioeconomic factors associated with these infants using standardized weight gain conditional on previous weight... Read More about Family, socio-economic and prenatal factors associated with failure to thrive in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC).

Failure to thrive in the term and preterm infants of mothers depressed in the postnatal period: a population-based birth cohort study (2004)
Journal Article
Drewett, R., Blair, P., Emmett, P., Emond, A., & team, T. A. S. (2004). Failure to thrive in the term and preterm infants of mothers depressed in the postnatal period: a population-based birth cohort study. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 45(2), 359-366. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7610.2004.00226.x

Aims: To examine the relationship between failure to thrive in preterm and term infants and postnatal depression in their mothers. Method: In a whole population birth cohort of 12,391 infants (excluding those born after term or with major congenital... Read More about Failure to thrive in the term and preterm infants of mothers depressed in the postnatal period: a population-based birth cohort study.

Malnutrition and mental development: is there a sensitive period? A nested case-control study (2001)
Journal Article
Drewett, R., Wolke, D., Asefa, M., Kaba, M., & Tessema, F. (2001). Malnutrition and mental development: is there a sensitive period? A nested case-control study. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 42(2), 181-187. https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-7610.00709

To examine the possibility that there is an early sensitive period for the effects of malnutrition on cognitive development, three groups of children (N = 197) were recruited from a birth cohort with known growth characteristics in south-west Ethiopi... Read More about Malnutrition and mental development: is there a sensitive period? A nested case-control study.