Increasing Prevalence of Cerebral Palsy Among Two-Year-Old Children Born at <27 Weeks of Gestation: A Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate changes in prevalence and severity of cerebral palsy (CP) among surviving children born at <27 weeks of gestation over time and to determine associations between CP and other developmental domains, functional impairment, medical morbidities, and resource use among 2-year-old children who were born extremely preterm.

Study design

Retrospective cohort study using prospective registry data, conducted at 25 centers of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Neonatal Research Network. Participants were children born at <27 weeks of gestation and followed at 18 through 26 months of corrected age from 2008 through 2019. Outcomes of interest were changes in prevalence of any CP and severity of CP over time and associa

SUBMITTER: DeMauro SB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11045323 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature