School-Age Outcomes in Children with Birth Weights under 750 g
New England Journal of MedicinePublished 22 September 1994Open access
Maureen Hack, H. Gerry Taylor, Nancy Klein, Robert M. Eiben, Christopher Schatschneider, Nori Mercuri-Minich
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Children with birth weights under 750 g were inferior to both comparison groups in cognitive ability, psychomotor skills, and academic achievement and had poorer social skills and adaptive behavior and more behavioral and attention problems.
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Children with birth weights under 750 g who survive represent a subgroup of very-low-birth-weight children who are at high risk for neurobehavioral dysfunction and poor school performance.
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