· People born small for gestational age (SGA) have a lower IQ throughout development from infancy to adulthood · The effects of SGA tend to reduce by adulthood · Low socioeconomic status and poor parent-infant relationship further adversely affect cognitive development · Early interventions for SGA beyond catch-up growth such as improving parent-child relationship may…
Survival of very preterm (VPT) infants (ie, those born at <32 weeks’ gestation) has improved markedly over recent decades, raising concerns about levels of impairment among survivors.
…Objective – To determine whether cognitive performance from infancy to adulthood is affected by being born SGA, and if this depends on the SGA reference used. Furthermore, to determine SGA’s effect while considering the effects of very preterm/very low birth weight (VP/VLBW), socioeconomic status (SES), and parent‐infant relationship.
…Very preterm (VP; <32 weeks gestation) and/or very low birth weight (VLBW; <1500 g) birth has been associated with an increased risk of adverse motor and cognitive outcomes that may persist into adulthood.
…Listen to Professor Dieter Wolke discuss ‘Consequences of premature birth problems in the later life of premature babies’ (German only)
…Objective: To determine whether the attention problems in adults born very preterm/very low birth weight (VP/VLBW; <32 weeks’ gestation/<1500 g) or extremely preterm (EP; <26 weeks’ gestation) are associated with specific executive or general cognitive deficits.
…BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Children born extremely preterm (EP) (<26 weeks’ gestation) have lower cognitive scores and an increased rate of cognitive impairment compared with their term-born peers. However, the neuropsychological presentation of these EP individuals in adulthood has not been described. The aim of this study was to examine neuropsychological outcomes in early adulthood after EP birth in the 1995 EPICure cohort and to investigate if the rate of intellectual impairment changed longitudinally.
…Preterm birth research is poised to explore the mental health of adults born very preterm(VP;<32+0 weeks gestational age) and/or very low birth weight(VLBW; <1500g) through individual participant data meta-analyses, but first the previous evidence needs to be understood.
…Qualitative studies about the abnormalities appreciated on routine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) sequences in prematurely born adults are lacking. This article aimed at filling this knowledge gap by (1) qualitatively describing routine imaging findings in prematurely born adults, (2) evaluating measures for routine image interpretation and (3) investigating the impact of perinatal variables related to premature birth.
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