Five-year neurodevelopmental assessment of extremely preterm or extremely low birthweight infants: Association with school performance.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

We investigated the associations between motor performance and IQ at 5 years of age and school difficulties and grade point averages (GPAs) at 18 years of age. Additionally, the accuracy of preschool IQ in predicting school difficulties was examined.

Methods

A nationwide follow-up study of children born in 1994-1995 who were <28 weeks of gestation or had a birthweight <1000 g. The Danish personal identification number was used to merge data from a national cohort study with population-based registries. Logistic regression analyses examined the associations between motor performance/IQ and school difficulties. Linear regression analyses and the area under the receiver operator curve (AUC) were used to examine the relationship between IQ and GPAs.

Results

The study

SUBMITTER: Wiingreen R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11627452 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature