Intelligence of very preterm or very low birthweight infants in young adulthood

@article{WeisglasKuperus2008IntelligenceOV,
  title={Intelligence of very preterm or very low birthweight infants in young adulthood},
  author={Nynke Weisglas‐Kuperus and Elys{\'e}e T.M. Hille and Hugo Joseph Duivenvoorden and Martijn J J Finken and Jan M. Wit and Stef van Buuren and J B van Goudoever and S. Pauline Verloove-vanhorick},
  journal={Archives of Disease in Childhood Fetal and Neonatal Edition},
  year={2008},
  volume={94},
  pages={F196 - F200}
}
Objective: To examine the effect of intrauterine and neonatal growth, prematurity and personal and environmental risk factors on intelligence in adulthood in survivors of the early neonatal intensive care era. Methods: A large geographically based cohort comprised 94% of all babies born alive in the Netherlands in 1983 with a gestational age below 32 weeks and/or a birth weight >1500 g (POPS study). Intelligence was assessed in 596 participants at 19 years of age. Intrauterine and neonatal… 
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Infant Growth after Preterm Birth and Mental Health in Young Adulthood

Despite the high variability in early growth of VLBW infants, the previously described association between slow growth in infancy and poorer cognitive functioning in later life is not reflected in symptoms of depression, ADHD, and other psychiatric problems.

Psychosocial and Developmental Outcomes of Children Born following Intrauterine Growth Restriction: An Australian Pilot Study

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Psychosocial and Developmental Outcomes of Children Born following Intrauterine Growth Restriction: An Australian Pilot Study

This pilot study supports the need for further prenatal and postnatal research that examines the psychosocial trajectory of children born following IUGR, and suggests that older maternal age and lower birth weight were observed among children with developmental concerns were observed compared to children without apparent problems.

Psychosocial and Developmental Outcomes of Children Born following Intrauterine Growth Restriction: An Australian Pilot Study

This pilot study supports the need for further prenatal and postnatal research that examines the psychosocial trajectory of children born following IUGR and finds that older maternal age and lower birth weight were observed compared to children without apparent problems.

Growth after late-preterm birth and adult cognitive, academic, and mental health outcomes

Faster growth during the critical early period after late-preterm birth is associated with better adult neurocognitive functioning, but not consistently with mental health outcomes.

Preterm Birth, Social Disadvantage, and Cognitive Competence in Swedish 18- to 19-Year-Old Men

This study confirms previous claims of an incremental association of cognitive competence with GA and modified this effect at all levels of preterm birth.

Exposure to placental insufficiency alters postnatal growth trajectory in extremely low birth weight infants

It is demonstrated for the first time that placental insufficiency, an antenatal factor, is a major determinant of postnatal weight trajectory in the ELBW population.

Two-year neurodevelopmental outcome of preterm born children ≤750 g at birth

Increased survival of infants with a birth weight ≤750 g coincided with more children with an impaired NDO at 2 years corrected age, and SGA infants are especially at risk of impaired N DO.
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