Journal article
Intelligence of very preterm or very low birthweight infants in young adulthood
Abstract
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 …
Authors
Weisglas-Kuperus N; Hille ETM; Duivenvoorden HJ; Finken MJJ; Wit JM; van Buuren S; van Goudoever JB; Verloove-Vanhorick SP
Journal
Archives of Disease in Childhood Fetal & Neonatal, Vol. 94, No. 3, pp. f196–f200
Publisher
BMJ
Publication Date
May 2009
DOI
10.1136/adc.2007.135095
ISSN
1359-2998