{"id":2373,"date":"2026-05-15T23:43:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T23:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/?p=2373"},"modified":"2026-05-15T23:43:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T23:43:59","slug":"in-new-guideline-failure-to-thrive-becomes-faltering-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/?p=2373","title":{"rendered":"In new guideline, \u2018failure to thrive\u2019 becomes \u2018faltering weight\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;margin:5px 12px 0 0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.healio.com\/~\/media\/slack-news\/pediatrics\/misc\/infographics\/2026\/idc0326kersten.jpg?w=300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"max-width:800px\">The American Academy of Pediatrics released its first clinical practice guideline on faltering weight \u2014 formerly known as failure to thrive \u2014 with advice for diagnosing and treating the condition.<br \/>The AAP teamed up with the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition nearly a decade ago to create an evidence-based guideline for pediatricians, according to Hans B. Kersten, MD, FAAP, chair of the AAP\u2019s guideline panel on faltering weight.<br \/>\u201cThere were a number of different goals that we had,\u201d Kersten told Healio. \u201cFirst was &#8230; a new name.\u201d [Editor\u2019s note:<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healio.com\/news\/pediatrics\/20260515\/in-new-guideline-failure-to-thrive-becomes-faltering-weight\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Academy of Pediatrics released its first clinical practice guideline on faltering weight \u2014 formerly known as failure to thrive \u2014 with advice for diagnosing and treating the condition.The AAP teamed up with the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition nearly a decade ago to create an evidence-based guideline for pediatricians, according to Hans B. Kersten, MD, FAAP, chair of the AAP\u2019s guideline panel on faltering weight.\u201cThere were a number of different goals that we had,\u201d Kersten told Healio. \u201cFirst was &#8230; a new name.\u201d [Editor\u2019s note: Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}