Identification of neurodevelopmental transition patterns from infancy to early childhood and risk factors predicting descending transition.

ABSTRACT: It is unclear whether neurodevelopmental progress from infancy to early childhood remains stable. Moreover, little is known about the risk factors, if any, affecting neurodevelopmental descending transition patterns and the relationship between these patterns and later childhood adaptive behaviours. We used data of 875 children from the Hamamatsu Birth Cohort Study in Japan. Children's neurodevelopment at 18 and 32 months and adaptive behaviours at 40 months were evaluated. Perinatal factors and infant overweight status at 18 months were investigated to identify descending-transition-associated risk factors. In the latent transition analysis, ultimately, three classes were identified for each time-point, resulting in nine transition patterns; among them, 10.4% of children showed descending

SUBMITTER: Kato T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8938496 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature