Low risk vaginally born preterm infants: a four year psychological and neurodevelopmental follow-up study.

A prospective follow-up study of 39 vaginally born low risk preterm (less than 37 weeks of gestation) and ten term control infants was carried out to estimate psychological and neurodevelopmental outcome at four years of age in relation to conceptual age and fetal acidosis at birth. The patients were divided into two groups: infants born after 29-33 weeks gestation (Group I) and those born after 34-36 weeks gestation (Group II), with or without fetal acidosis, i.e.

Minimal brain dysfunction in preschool age--risk for trouble in school?

In general health examinations of 2,447 4-year-old children in a certain area of southern Sweden, comprising 95.1% of the total population of that age, 52 children (2.1%) were diagnosed as having minimal brain dysfunction.