Outcomes in Young Adulthood for Very-Low-Birth-Weight Infants

Hack, Maureen; J. Flannery, Daniel; Schluchter, Mark; Cartar, Lydia; A. Borawski, Elaine; Klein, Nancy

doi:10.1056/nejmoa010856

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Outcomes in Young Adulthood for Very-Low-Birth-Weight Infants

Published in New England Journal of Medicine • Jan 17, 2002

Authors:

Maureen Hack

Daniel J. Flannery

Mark Schluchter

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Very-low-birth-weight infants (those weighing less than 1500 g) born during the initial years of neonatal intensive care have now reached young adulthood. METHODS: We compared a cohort of 242 survivors among very-low-birth-weight infants born between 1977 and 1979 (mean birth weight, 117...

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Medicine

Birth weight

Low birth weight

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