Low birth weight and intelligence in adolescence and early adulthood

Cognitive impairments associated with LBW persist into adolescence and early adulthood; however, the influence of LBW on IQ decreases from childhood to ...

They found that the average intelligence quotient (IQ) for children and early adolescents born preterm (and therefore mostly LBW) was 11.94 ...

Low birth weight and intelligence in adolescence and early adulthood

Research has demonstrated an association between low birth weight (LBW; <2500 g) and adverse intelligence quotient (IQ) outcomes in childhood and early ...

A gradient relationship between low birth weight and IQ - Nature

A recent meta-analysis containing 15 individual studies on the relationship between LBW and IQs in adolescent and early adulthood (age ≥ 13) ...

Low birth weight and intelligence in adolescence and early ...

Methods During Stage 1 (meta-analysis of data on adolescents/adults), we searched for relevant articles in PsychINFO, PubMed, Ovid, CINAHL,.

Atypical brain structure mediates reduced IQ in young adults born ...

Preterm birth with very low birth weight (VLBW) confers heightened risk for perinatal brain injury and long-term cognitive deficits, ...

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

We hypothesized that, as compared with normal-birth-weight controls, very-low-birth-weight young adults would have lower intelligence, lower levels of ...

Young adult outcomes of very-low-birth-weight children

Very-low-birth-weight young adults have, with few exceptions, poorer educational achievement than normal-birth-weight controls, and fewer continue with post- ...

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, ...

Birth Weight and Intelligence in Young Adulthood and Midlife

The association between birth weight and intelligence is stable from young adulthood into midlife, and these long-term cognitive consequences may imply that ...

Born Too Early and Too Small: Higher Order Cognitive Function and ...

At ages 8–16, VP-VLBW children showed: a) lower intelligent quotient (IQ) and executive function; b) decreased gray and white matter (WM) ...

Small for gestational age and poor fluid intelligence in childhood ...

Small for gestational age and poor fluid intelligence in childhood predict externalizing behaviors among young adults born at extremely low birth weight ...

Very Low Birth Weight and Growth Into Adolescence - JAMA Network

At ages 2, 5, 8, and 14 years, VLBW children were significantly shorter and lighter and had smaller head circumferences than NBW children. The differences in ...

Cognitive profile in young adults born preterm at very low birthweight

VLBW participants scored lower than comparison individuals on full, verbal, and performance IQ, as well as on all four indices (p≤0.001). The ...

Cognitive and motor outcomes in children born low birth weight

The overall pooled weighted mean difference (WMD) in cognitive scores from infancy till adolescence in low birth weights, compared to NBW ...

How do childhood intelligence and early psychosocial adversity ...

Extremely low birth weight survivors who did not face psychological adversities and who had higher childhood IQ reported higher income in ...

Intelligence of very preterm or very low birthweight infants in young ...

Low birth weight and intelligence in adolescence and early adulthood: a meta-analysis. Christine KormosA. J. WilkinsonC. DaveyA. Cunningham. Medicine ...

Transition of Extremely Low-Birth-Weight Infants From Adolescence ...

... Cognitive deficits are relatively stable from the second year of life into adulthood (3)(4)(5)(6). However, the majority of very preterm ...

Mental health, quality of life and social relations in young adults born ...

Our findings suggest that self-reported mental health and well-being in young adulthood may be adversely affected by low birth weight, ...

Being born very preterm or very low birthweight is associated with ...

The average IQ of adults who were born very preterm (VP) or at a very low birth weight (VLBW) has been compared to adults born full term.