Head circumference and intelligence, schooling, employment, and income: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

No consensus exists about the role of head circumference in identifying children at risk of suboptimal development. The objective of this study was to evaluate the association between head circumference and intelligence, schooling, employment, and income. The review 1) summarizes the overall evidence and 2) restricts the evidence to a subset of articles that met minimum quality criteria.

Methods

PubMed, Web of Science, PsycINFO, LILACS, CINAHL, WHO Institutional Repository for Information Sharing and UNICEF Innocenti were searched to identify published studies. Cohort, case-control or cross-sectional studies which evaluated the associations of interest in the general population, premature babies, babies with low birth weight or small for gestational age were inclu

SUBMITTER: Freire MBO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11542250 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature