RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 School-aged neurodevelopmental outcomes for children born extremely preterm
JF Archives of Disease in Childhood
JO Arch Dis Child
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
SP archdischild-2021-321668
DO 10.1136/archdischild-2021-321668
A1 Lex W Doyle
A1 Alicia Spittle
A1 Peter J Anderson
A1 Jeanie Ling Yoong Cheong
YR 2021
UL http://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2021/06/03/archdischild-2021-321668.abstract
AB As survival rates for children born extremely preterm (EP, <28 weeks’ gestation) have increased with advances in perinatal and neonatal care, their long-term functioning and quality of life assume more importance. Outcomes in early childhood provide some information, but outcomes at school-age are more informative of life-long functioning. Children born EP at school-age have substantially higher rates of intellectual impairment, poorer executive, academic and motor function, more neurodevelopmental disability, and poorer health-related quality of life than do contemporaneous term-born controls. Because the rates of adverse outcomes remain unacceptably high, and particularly since some outcomes may be deteriorating rather than improving over time, new strategies to ameliorate these problems, targeting periods before, during and after birth, and throughout the lifespan, are a priority.No data are available. There are no data available relevant to this review.