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Evaluations were done at 21 months post-conceptual age on 134 LBW infants discharged from the Regional Neonatal Intensive Care Center between 1974-1976. A 60% return of those assigned for evaluation (all infants with birth weights less than 1500 grams and 20% of infants with birth weights between 1500 and 2500 grams) was achieved. The evaluation tools were the Bayley Scales of Infant Development with mental and physical developmental quotients (MDQ;PDQ), neurological and general evaluations.
The only group that was significantly different from the other groups was those less than 1000 grams, where 6 of 16 in this group were estimated to be mentally defective. Three of the 6 defective babies had birth weights less than 750 grams. No differences were evident due to race and sex. It would appear that the babies at major risk for serious handicap are the very LBW babies and they continue to provide a perplexing problem for those involved with the care of small infants.
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Resnick, M., Eitzman, D., Nelson, R. et al. 1016 DEVELOPMENT OF LOW BIRTH WEIGHT (LBW) INFANTS. Pediatr Res 12 (Suppl 4), 533 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1203/00006450-197804001-01022
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