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Perinatal Growth Retardation in Preterm Infants
Author(s) -
GREISEN GORM,
PETERSEN MINNA BLOCH
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1989.tb11281.x
Subject(s) - medicine , gestation , pediatrics , birth weight , growth retardation , head circumference , low birth weight , motor function , motor skill , obstetrics , pregnancy , psychiatry , genetics , physical medicine and rehabilitation , biology
Greisen, G. and Petersen, M. B. (Department of Neonatology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark). Perinatal growth retardation in preterm infants. Acta Paediatr Scand Suppl 360: 43, 1989. Perinatal and 4‐year follow‐up data were analysed for 137 children born after 26 to 35 weeks of gestation. All were free of severe prenatal or neonatal illness and of major handicaps. Infants who were light‐for‐gestation at birth were approximately 0.6 SDS smaller at 4 years than the appropriate‐for‐gestation infants as regards height, weight, and head circumference (p< 0.005). The McCarthy general cognitive score was reduced (p = 0.03). Motor scores, standardised for cognitive function, were also reduced (p = 0.02) indicating that motor—perhaps cerebellar—function is particularly vulnerable to perinatal growth retardation.