OBJECTIVE To examine neighborhood effects on academic achievement of children with extremely low birth weight (ELBW <1000 g) and normal birth weight (NBW) controls. METHODS The study included 183 8-year-old children with ELBW born during 1992-1995 and 176 sociodemographically similar NBW controls. Academic achievement was measured via The Woodcock-Johnson III Academic Skills Cluster. RESULT...

Poor executive function (EF) has been linked to attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Children born at extremely low birth weight (ELBW; <1000 g) have been found to show both poor EF, as well as elevated levels of symptoms of ADHD. In the present study, we examined whether fluid intelligence moderates the link between birth weight and later ADHD symptoms by prospectively following a ...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether there are any differences between the self-esteem of a cohort of adolescents who were extremely low birth weight (ELBW) in comparison with term controls (Cs); and to test the associations between self-esteem and several predefined predictor variables. BACKGROUND Self-esteem is considered to play a significant role in psychological adjustment and scholastic succe...

‘Screening window’, defined as the period between the development of the abnormal test result of NBS and development of symptoms in the infant, may vary from disorder to disorder. It will be most ideal to collect sample on fourth day of life. Samples can be collected from home by trained nurse/phlebotomist. There are many riders associated with interpretation of blood samples collected in the f...