Growth and nutritional intake of infants with congenital heart disease

Poor weight and length gain of infants with congenital heart disease is generally considered to be related to inadequate nutritional intake, but no longitudinal data on growth and nutritional intake of such infants are available. We compared weight, length, subscapular and triceps skinfold thickness, energy and protein intake (24-h dietary intake records) as well as serum prealbumin and albumin of infants with cyanotic heart disease (n=8) or isolated left-to-right shunt (n=8) with those of healthy infants aged (n=8) 45–365 days.