Z-score differences based on cross-sectional growth charts do not reflect the growth rate of very low birth weight infants

• Niels Rochow ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: rochow@npmmcmaster.ca

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7990-3904

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• Erin Landau-Crangle,

  Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Medicine, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

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• Hon Yiu So,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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• Anna Pelc,

  Roles Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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• Gerhard Fusch,

  Roles Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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• Jan Däbritz,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital Rostock, Rostock, Germany

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• Wolfgang Göpel,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

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• Christoph Fusch

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Department of Pediatrics, Paracelsus Medical University Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany

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