Abstract

Growth retardation is shown in patients with cerebralpalsy (CP) and most important cause is be malnutrition. The aim of the current study is to reveal socio-demographic characteristics of CP patients and relationship between anthropometric parametres and functionality.
Material and Methods: Total of 48 CP patients, between 2-14 years-old admitted to our inpatient clinic, are included in the study. Age, gender, etiology, CP subtype and co-morbidities were recorded. Functional status of the children were recorded according to the Gross motor function classification system (GMFCS). Weight, height measurements were done, body mass index (BMI) and Z-scores were calculated.
Results: Of the patients 56.2% were female and 43.8% were male with 6.0±2.7 (2.3-13.5) (mean±SD) years mean age. Totally, 19 patients (39.6%) were classified as diplegic and 29 patients (60.4%) were classified as total type CP. Total of 28 (58.3%) patients were non-ambulatory and 20 (41.7%) patients were ambulatory. Patients with height and weight 3th percentile and below were 46.3% and 34% of all, respectively. The BMI percentile of the patients accoding to the 5th percentile and below were 31.9% of total. Of the patients 68.8% had teeth problems, 33.3% had sialorrhea, 14.6% had dysphagia and 6.3% had gastro-esophageal reflux as nutritional problems.
Conclusion: Growth retardation is more common in patients with cerebral palsy and has multiple reasons. Nutritional parameters is used to assess growth. We did not detect significant difference between functionality, CP type and body weight, height and BMI Z- scores in CP patients.

Keywords: Body height, Malnutrition, Cerebral palsy, Body weight

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Karabay İ, Bölük Şenlikci H, Ural FG, Tiftik T, Ersöz M, Akkuş S. Relationship between functional status, Cerebral palsy subtype and anthropometric parametres in Cerebral Palsied children. Turk J Pediatr Dis [Internet]. 2020 Sep. 29 [cited 2025 May 25];14(5):417-21. Available from: https://turkjpediatrdis.org/article/view/663