Authors
John Allotey, Javier Zamora, Fiona Cheong‐See, Madhavi Kalidindi, David Arroyo‐Manzano, Elizabeth Asztalos, Joris AM van der Post, BW Mol, Derek Moore, Deidre Birtles, KS Khan, S Thangaratinam
Publication date
2018/1
Source
BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Volume
125
Issue
1
Pages
16-25
Description
Background
Preterm birth may leave the brain vulnerable to dysfunction. Knowledge of future neurodevelopmental delay in children born with various degrees of prematurity is needed to inform practice and policy.
Objective
To quantify the long‐term cognitive, motor, behavioural and academic performance of children born with different degrees of prematurity compared with term‐born children.
Search strategy
PubMed and Embase were searched from January 1980 to December 2016 without language restrictions.
Selection criteria
Observational studies that reported neurodevelopmental outcomes from 2 years of age in children born preterm compared with a term‐born cohort.
Data collection and analysis
We pooled individual estimates of standardised mean differences (SMD) and odds ratios (OR) with 95% confidence intervals using a random effects model.
Main results
We included 74 studies (64 061 …
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