Cerebral palsy rates among low-birtweight infants fell in the 1990s

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 456-462

  Surman, Geraldine ^a   Newdick, Helen ^a   Johnson, Ann ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; CEREBRAL PALSY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INFANT; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERINATAL CARE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; UNITED KINGDOM;

CEREBRAL PALSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GESTATIONAL AGE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INFANT WELFARE; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MULTIPLE BIRTH OFFSPRING; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0038150819     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0012162203000859     Document Type: Article

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