Brain development and scholastic achievement in the Education Quality Measurement System tests in Chilean school-aged children

Pediatric Research

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 464-470

  Ivanovic, Daniza M ^a   Ibaceta, Camila V ^a   Correa, Paulina B ^a   Orellana, Yasna Z ^a   Calderón, Patricio M ^a   Morales, Gladys I ^b   Leyton, Bárbara D ^a   Almagià, Atilio F ^c   Lizana, Pablo A ^c   Burrows, Raquel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA FRONTERA   (Chile)

^c PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE VALPARAÍSO   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHILD; CHILE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HIGH SCHOOL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE TEST; MALE; MATHEMATICS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRIMARY SCHOOL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; SCHOLASTIC ACHIEVEMENT IN THE EDUCATION QUALITY MEASUREMENT SYSTEM TEST; SCHOOL CHILD;

ACHIEVEMENT; ANTHROPOMETRY; APTITUDE TESTS; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STUDENTS;

EID: 84896814962     PISSN: 00313998     EISSN: 15300447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/pr.2013.232     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Gale CR, O'Callaghan FJ, Bredow M, Martyn CN; Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children Study Team. The influence of head growth in fetal life, infancy, and childhood on intelligence at the ages of 4 and 8 years. Pediatrics 2006;118:1486-92.
2. Ochiai M, Nakayama H, Sato K, et al. Head circumference and long-term outcome in small-for-gestational age infants. J Perinat Med 2008;36:341-7.
3. Ivanovic DM, Leiva BP, Pérez HT, et al. Head size and intelligence, learning, nutritional status and brain development. Head, IQ, learning, nutrition and brain. Neuropsychologia 2004;42:1118-31.
4. Emond AM, Lira PI, Lima MC, Grantham-McGregor SM, Ashworth A. Development and behaviour of low-birthweight term infants at 8 years in northeast Brazil: a longitudinal study. Acta Paediatr 2006;95:1249-57.
5. Frisk V, Amsel R, Whyte HE. The importance of head growth patterns in predicting the cognitive abilities and literacy skills of small-for- gestationalage children. Dev Neuropsychol 2002;22:565-93.
6. Johnson S, Wolke D, Hennessy E, Marlow N. Educational outcomes in extremely preterm children: neuropsychological correlates and predictors of attainment. Dev Neuropsychol 2011;36:74-95.
7. Silva LM, Jansen PW, Steegers EA, et al. Mother's educational level and fetal growth: the genesis of health inequalities. Int J Epidemiol 2010;39:1250-61.
8. Cornelius MD, Goldschmidt L, Willford JA, Leech SL, Larkby C, Day NL. Body size and intelligence in 6-year-olds: are offspring of teenage mothers at risk? Matern Child Health J 2009;13:847-56.
9. Charkaluk ML, Truffert P, Marchand-Martin L, et al.; Epipage study group. Very preterm children free of disability or delay at age 2: predictors of schooling at age 8: a population-based longitudinal study. Early Hum Dev 2011;87:297-302.
10. Vieira ME, Linhares MB. Developmental outcomes and quality of life in children born preterm at preschool- and school-age. J Pediatr (Rio J) 2011;87:281-91.
11. Lorenz JM, Whitaker AH, Feldman JF, et al. Indices of body and brain size at birth and at the age of 2 years: relations to cognitive outcome at the age of 16 years in low birth weight infants. J Dev Behav Pediatr 2009;30:535-43.
12. Abernethy LJ, Cooke RW, Foulder-Hughes L. Caudate and hippocampal volumes, intelligence, and motor impairment in 7-year-old children who were born preterm. Pediatr Res 2004;55:884-93.
13. Northam GB, Liégeois F, Chong WK, Wyatt JS, Baldeweg T. Total brain white matter is a major determinant of IQ in adolescents born preterm. Ann Neurol 2011;69:702-11.
14. Isaacs EB, Fischl BR, Quinn BT, Chong WK, Gadian DG, Lucas A. Impact of breast milk on intelligence quotient, brain size, and white matter development. Pediatr Res 2010;67:357-62.
15. Isaacs EB, Gadian DG, Sabatini S, et al. The effect of early human diet on caudate volumes and IQ. Pediatr Res 2008;63:308-14.
16. Pangelinan MM, Zhang G, Van Meter JW, Clark JE, Hatfield BD, Haufler AJ. Beyond age and gender: relationships between cortical and subcortical brain volume and cognitive-motor abilities in school-age children. Neuroimage 2011;54:3093-100.
17. McDaniel MA. Big-brained people are smarter: a meta-analysis of the relationship between in vivo brain volume and intelligence. Intelligence 2005;33:337-46.
18. Smit DJ, Luciano M, Bartels M, et al. Heritability of head size in Dutch and Australian twin families at ages 0-50 years. Twin Res Hum Genet 2010;13:370-80.
19. Ivanovic DM, Pérez HT, Olivares MG, Díaz NS, Leyton BD, Ivanovic RM. Scholastic achievement: a multivariate analysis of nutritional, intellectual, socioeconomic, sociocultural, familial, and demographic variables in Chilean school-age children. Nutrition 2004;20:878-89.
20. Ivanovic R, Forno H, Castro CG, Ivanovic D. Intellectual ability and nutritional status assessed through anthropometric measurements of Chilean school-age children from different socioeconomic status. Ecol Food Nutr 2000;39:35-59.
21. Ivanovic D, Del P Rodríguez M, Pérez H, et al. Twelve-year follow-up study of the impact of nutritional status at the onset of elementary school on later educational situation of Chilean school-age children. Eur J Clin Nutr 2008;62:18-31.
22. Ivanovic DM, Rodríguez M del P, Pérez H, et al. Long-term study of the impact of nutritional, intellectual, family, educational and socio-economic variables of school-age children at the onset of elementary school on the academic aptitude test achievement at the end of high school. Chile's Metropolitan Region. 1987-1998. Br J Nutr 2009;102:142-54.
23. a Edición. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Editorial Kapeluz, 1966.
24. Mannerkoski MK, Heiskala HJ, Van Leemput K, et al. Subjects with intellectual disability and familial need for full-time special education show regional brain alterations: a voxel-based morphometry study. Pediatr Res 2009;66:306-11.
25. Ivanovic DM, Leiva BP, Perez HT, et al. Long-term effects of severe undernutrition during the first year of life on brain development and learning in Chilean high-school graduates. Nutrition 2000;16:1056-63.
26. Ramakrishnan U, Stein AD, Parra-Cabrera S, et al. Effects of docosahexaenoic acid supplementation during pregnancy on gestational age and size at birth: randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial in Mexico. Food Nutr Bull 2010;31(Suppl): S108-16.
27. Bouthoorn SH, van Lenthe FJ, Hokken-Koelega AC, et al. Head circumference of infants born to mothers with different educational levels; the Generation R Study. PLoS ONE 2012;7:e39798.
28. Walker SP, Wachs TD, Grantham-McGregor S, et al. Inequality in early childhood: risk and protective factors for early child development. Lancet 2011;378:1325-38.
29. Tanner JM. Physical growth and development. In: Forfar JO, Arneil GC, eds. Textbook of Pediatrics. Edinburgh, Scotland: Churchill Livingstone, 1984:278-330.
30. Nellhaus G. Head circumference from birth to eighteen years. Practical composite international and interracial graphs. Pediatrics 1968;41:106-14.
31. Roche AF, Mukherjee D, Guo SM, Moore WM. Head circumference reference data: birth to 18 years. Pediatrics 1987;79:706-12.
32. Ivanovic D, Olivares M, Castro C, Ivanovic R. [Head circumference in Chilean school children 5 to 18 years of age and socioeconomic status]. Rev Med Chil 1995;123:587-99.
33. Cheong JL, Hunt RW, Anderson PJ, et al. Head growth in preterm infants: correlation with magnetic resonance imaging and neurodevelopmental outcome. Pediatrics 2008;121:e1534-40.
34. The World Medical Association. Declaration of Helsinki-Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects (Declaration of Helsinki). 59th WMA General Assembly, Seoul, Korea, October 2008.
35. Chile. Ministerio de Educación. Resultados Nacionales SIMCE 2009 [SIMCE 2009 National Results]. SIMCE, Unidad de Currículum y Evaluación (UCE). Santiago: Ministerio de Educación, 2010.
36. Gibson R. Principles of Nutritional Assessment. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1990.
37. National Center for Health Statistics. Growth curves. CDC growth Charts for United States: Methods and development, 2000 (www.cdc.gov/growthcharts.).
38. Alvarez ML, Muzzo S, Ivanovic D. [Scale for measurement of socioeconomic level, in the health area]. Rev Med Chil 1985;113:243-9.
39. Guilford JP, Fruchter B. Estadística Aplicada a la Psicología y a la Educación [Fundamental statistics in psychology and education]. México: McGraw Hill, 1984.