Premature babies don't grow out of their problems


	Premature babies don't grow out of their problems

tabsey

3-30-2008 3:53 AM

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Interesting, even with the statistics.

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childhood and, if they survive, much less likely to have children
of their own in adulthood, according to the largest study of
prematurity ever undertaken.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theage.com.au/news/parenting/premature-babies-dont-grow-out-of-their-problems/2008/03/26/1206207207332.html"><P>Researchers already knew that premature infants faced many
neurological and developmental problems, but the new findings,
released yesterday, indicate that the spectrum of problems is even
broader than suspected and persist throughout the child's life.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theage.com.au/news/parenting/premature-babies-dont-grow-out-of-their-problems/2008/03/26/1206207207332.html"><P>The study, conducted using Norwegian birth data, suggests that,
as the percentage of premature infants who make it through their
first year continues to grow because of advances in neonatology,
the number of troubled infants and adults will also rise.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theage.com.au/news/parenting/premature-babies-dont-grow-out-of-their-problems/2008/03/26/1206207207332.html"><P>"Are we improving their survival at the expense of significant
problems down the road?" asked the lead author, Dr Geeta Swamy, of
the Duke University Medical Centre.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theage.com.au/news/parenting/premature-babies-dont-grow-out-of-their-problems/2008/03/26/1206207207332.html"><P>One in eight US infants are born prematurely - defined as 37
weeks or less.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/12258B38-6AB1-4788-9D4E-5F59D08A677A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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