In The Lancet Global Health, Anne Lee and colleagues from the Child Health Epidemiology Reference Group (CHERG) make an important contribution to our understanding of the global burden of intrauterine growth restriction. What is new in this work is the evidence that the majority of growth-restricted neonates (assessed with the proxy of small-forgestational-age birth) weigh 2500 g or more at bir...

AIMS To compare the visual function of a cohort of very low birthweight (VLBW) children in early adolescence with that of their normal birthweight peers; to correlate visual impairment in this group with available perinatal data; and to examine the relation between the visual ability of VLBW children and their cognitive and motor skills. METHODS As part of a long term neurodevelopmental study...

A study of those survivors weighing 2000 g or less at birth born to residents of the South East Thames Regional Health Authority in 1970, '71, and '73 was carried out by abstracting data from health visitors' and school health records. Some postnatal information was available for 78% of the children. Prevalences of reported impairments in relation to birthweight were 20% in babies of 1500 g or ...

Elliott, E., Moncrieff, M. W., and George, W. H. S. (1974). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 49, 60. Phototherapy for hyperbilirubinaemia in low birthweight infants. Eighty-eight babies whose birthweights were between 1500 g and 2500 g, and whose serum bilirubin reached 10 mg/100 ml, were entered into a controlled trial of phototherapy. Alternate babies were treated with 4000 to 5000 lux, and ...

Eighty one very low birthweight survivors with cerebral palsy were matched with controls by sex, gestational age, and place of birth. Using discriminant analysis, the perinatal profiles for infants with cerebral palsy and their controls were shown to differ significantly. When infants with various types of cerebral palsy were analysed with their controls the discriminating variables differed. D...

Postponing parenthood beyond the teen years can improve child wellbeing by increasing the odds of a healthy birth. Compared to older mothers, teen mothers were less likely to receive prenatal care, more likely to smoke during pregnancy, and more likely to have a birth that is preterm and/or low-birthweight. Consequently, teen mothers also experience higher rates of infant mortality, and infants...