Impact of Very Low Birth Weight on IQ and School Performance

The Effects of Low Birth Weight on School Performance and ...

Hack et al, observed that although a large group of LBW infants are leading a normal and healthy life, as a group they have higher rates of subnormal growth, ...

Very low birth weight affected some neurocognitive abilities and need for remedial education, but not grade average or level of educational ...

A gradient relationship between low birth weight and IQ - Nature

Multiple studies have reported that individuals with low birth weights (LBW, <2500 g) have a lower intelligence quotient (IQ) than those with normal birth ...

Controlled study of intelligence and school performance of very low ...

The very low-birthweight children had lower IQs, were more likely to be performing poorly or below average at school and were more likely to show emotional ...

Impact of Very Low Birth Weight on IQ and School - ProQuest

Very low birth weight affected some neurocognitive abilities and need for remedial education, but not grade average or level of educational attainment in a case ...

The effect of low birthweight on the school performance and ...

Overall, we find that low birthweight children are more likely to repeat a grade in school and are more likely to attend special education classes, even when ...

Outcomes in Young Adulthood for Very-Low-Birth-Weight Infants

Very-low-birth-weight participants had a lower mean IQ (87 vs. 92) and lower academic achievement scores (P<0.001 for both comparisons). They had higher rates ...

Association of Very Preterm Birth or Very Low Birth Weight With ...

While individual studies typically indicate that VPT/VLBW individuals have lower IQ in adulthood than term-born individuals, to our knowledge, ...

School marks and IQ-test scores for low birth weight children at the ...

There were 494 children born with low birth weight (LBW; 2500 g or less). The results of the present study showed, that the LBW children had significantly lower ...

Birth size, school performance and family social position - Nature

Low birth weight (BW) is associated with lower cognitive functioning, but less is known of these associations across the full range of the ...

Diet Quality and Cognitive Performance in Children Born Very Low ...

Children born very low birth weight (VLBW, <1500 g) are at high risk for cognitive and academic difficulties later in life.

Low birth weight and intelligence in adolescence and early adulthood

These findings suggest that there is a strong association between LBW and IQ when measured in childhood and early adolescence; however, this ...

Pattern of Learning Disabilities in Children With Extremely Low Birth ...

Despite seemingly adequate cognition, these children frequently experience difficulties in academic achievement, attention, and fine motor functioning. School ...

Intelligence Quotient (IQ) in school-aged preterm infants - Frontiers

Birth weight ranged between 400 and 3,850 grams, and it was possible to classify them as: extremely low birth weight (ELBW; < 1,000 g), very low birth weight ( ...

Decline in the negative association between low birth weight ... - PNAS

The results suggest that having a low weight at birth was associated with more negative consequences for a child's cognitive ability in the 1950s and 1970s ...

Cognitive and motor outcomes in children born low birth weight

A meta-analysis involving 15 studies (n = 3276) from developed settings documented lower cognitive scores in school aged children born preterm, ...

Effect of Very Low Birth Weight and Subnormal Head Size on ...

In very-low-birth-weight infants, perinatal growth failure, as evidenced by a subnormal head circumference at eight months of age, is associated ...

Birthweight, gestational age, and early school trajectory

Low birthweight is also associated with a delayed school entry—that is, low-birthweight children start school at a later age. These results ...

Effect of Birth Weight on Academic Performance: Instrumental ...

Observationally, lower birth weight is usually associated with poorer academic performance; whether this association is causal or the result ...

Birth Weight and Intelligence in Young Adulthood and Midlife

Our results suggest that a modest amount (1.3%) of variance in IQ at age 50 years is explained by birth weight, but the results also indicate ...