Academic achievement varies with gestational age among children born at term

Pediatrics

Volumn 130, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Noble, Kimberly G ^a,b,c   Fifer, William P ^a,d   Rauh, Virginia A ^a   Nomura, Yoko ^e   Andrews, Howard F ^a,b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^c NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^e MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Developmental outcomes; Gestational age; Reading achievement; Risk factors; School performance

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILDBIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GESTATION PERIOD; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MEDICAL RECORD; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL ASPECT; STANDARDIZATION; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA;

EID: 84864517322     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2011-2157     Document Type: Article

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