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The effect of birthweight on childhood cognitive development in a middle-income country

Author(s) -

Florencia Torche,

Ghislaine C. Echevarría

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

international journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406

H-Index - 208

eISSN - 1464-3685

pISSN - 0300-5771

DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyr030

Subject(s) - socioeconomic status , cognitive development , in utero , cognition , child development , early childhood , developmental psychology , infant mortality , medicine , birth weight , low and middle income countries , demography , psychology , developing country , pregnancy , environmental health , population , economics , psychiatry , fetus , sociology , biology , genetics , economic growth

Intra-uterine growth is a powerful predictor of infant mortality and of health, developmental and socioeconomic outcomes in adulthood. The question about whether this relationship is causal rather than driven by unobserved characteristics of low-weight infants is, however, still open. We use twin models to examine the hypothesis that in utero growth has a detrimental impact on cognitive development in childhood.

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