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JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL AND BEHAVIORAL PEDIATRICS
Volume 30, Issue 5, Pages 460-470Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/DBP.0b013e3181ba0fba
Keywords
adult; very low birth weight; preterm; neurodevelopment; behavior
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The survivors of the initial years of neonatal intensive care of preterm infants reached adulthood during the last decade. Reports of their adult outcomes examined have included neurodevelopmental, behavioral and health outcomes as well as social functioning and reproduction. Despite statistically significant differences between preterm young adults and controls in most outcomes studied, the majority of preterm survivors do well and live fairly normal lives. The two major predictors of adult outcomes are lower gestational age that reflect perinatal injury and family sociodemographic status which refelects both genetic and environmental effects.
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