Long term outcomes in children born a few weeks early

Published on Thursday, 18 February 2016 Tweet

A systematic review reporting long term cognitive problems and school outcomes in children born just a few weeks early has been published in Child: Care Health and Development. The review, led by a team including NPEU researchers Maria Quigley and Reem Malouf, included fourteen studies of children who were born late preterm (34-36 weeks' gestation) and eight studies of children born early term (37-37 weeks' gestation), and identified multiple, small, adverse differences between children born late preterm or early term compared with those born at term. Read the abstract of the paper.