Publications by authors named "Falk Voit"
Objectives: To test whether preschool academic skills were associated with educational attainment in adolescence and whether associations differed between individuals born preterm and at full term.
Study Design: This prospective cohort study comprised 6924 individuals, including n = 444 (6.4%) adolescents born preterm (<37 weeks of gestation) from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children.
Article Synopsis
- Recent studies show that a mother's mental health during pregnancy significantly impacts her baby's health at birth and later life outcomes.
- The research uses data from large German studies to explore how maternal mental health is linked to preterm births and low birth weight, finding strong evidence of a risk associated with poor mental health.
- However, the study did not find a connection between maternal mental health and the likelihood of babies being small for their gestational age.
Preterm birth research is poised to explore the mental health of adults born very preterm(VP; <32 weeks gestational age) and/or very low birth weight(VLBW; <1500g) through individual participant data meta-analyses, but first the previous evidence needs to be understood. We systematically reviewed and assessed the quality of the evidence from VP/VLBW studies with mental health symptoms or disorders appearing in adulthood, excluding childhood onset disorders. Participants (≥18 years, born >1970) included VP/VLBW individuals with controls born at term(≥37 weeks) or with normal birth weight(NBW; ≥2500g).
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