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Growth in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Influences Neurodevelopmental and Growth Outcomes of Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants

PEDIATRICS · 2006 · Vol. 117(4) · pp. 1253–1261

Richard A. Ehrenkranz✉(Yale University)Anna M. DusickBetty R. Vohr(Brown University)Linda L. Wright(Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)Lisa A. Wrage(RTI International)W. Kenneth Poole(RTI International)

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Abstract

These analyses suggest that growth velocity during an ELBW infant's NICU hospitalization exerts a significant, and possibly independent, effect on neurodevelopmental and growth outcomes at 18 to 22 months' corrected age.

Neonatal Respiratory Health Research Infant Nutrition and Health Infant Development and Preterm CareMedicineGestational agePediatricsBronchopulmonary dysplasiaNecrotizing enterocolitisBirth weightIntraventricular hemorrhageNeonatal intensive care unitBayley Scales of Infant DevelopmentLow birth weight

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Body HeightBody WeightCephalometryChild DevelopmentDevelopmental DisabilitiesFemaleHumansInfantInfant, NewbornIntensive Care Units, NeonatalMaleNeurologic ExaminationWeight GainInfant, Very Low Birth Weight

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