Is improved survival of very-low-birthweight infants in the 1980s and 1990s associated with increasing intellectual deficit in surviving children?

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 812-815

  Hansen, Bo Mølholm ^a   Greisen, Gorm ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CALCULATION; CEREBRAL PALSY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; INTELLIGENCE TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DEVELOPMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SURVIVAL RATE; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; VISUAL DISORDER;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION DISORDERS; COHORT STUDIES; DENMARK; DISABLED CHILDREN; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; NEUROPEPTIDES; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 9244247670     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0012162204001422     Document Type: Article

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