[PDF] Top 20 Motor and executive function at 6 years of age after extremely preterm birth

... study motor and executive function for children without overt neu- rologic problems in relation to their peers; these com- prised 180 EP children and 158 comparison children who completed most of the ... See full document

... and motor persistence are evaluated during a 75-second period standing with eyes, as a measure of ability to inhibit response to distracters; and “knock and tap,” which evaluates self-regulation and ability to ... See full document

... born extremely preterm are at risk for impairments in executive functioning (EF) and ...of executive impairments across childhood is not known, but it needs to be explored because ... See full document

... the preterm cohort obtained a full-scale IQ of ...17.9. Preterm children obtained scores 6 to 14 points lower than term controls on all psychometric tests after adjustment for sociodemographic ... See full document

... of birth for each EP/ELBW child and matched for sex, the mother’s country of birth (English-speaking or not), and health insurance status (private health insurance or ...8 years, the outcomes of ... See full document

... gestational age , 28 weeks (EP) or birth weight , 1000 g (ELBW) born in the state of Victoria, Australia, in ...2 years of age. A term/normal birth weight (T/NBW) cohort was recruited ... See full document

... a function of gestational length (Table 2), but late-preterm birth tended to be associated with lower mean PIQ scores relative to term birth in the adjusted models (adjusted mean difference: ... See full document

... NEPSY-II executive control measures of inhibition, set maintenance, and set shifting (Auditory Response Set, Inhibition Inhibition, and Inhibition Switching), mental flexibility (Animal Sorting), and processing ... See full document

... METHODS: Geographically determined cohort study of 228 consecutive ELBW/EP survivors born in the state of Victoria in 1991 and 1992, and 166 randomly selected NBW controls assessed between 14 and 20 years of ... See full document

... 18 years, and, in contrast to the change in weight over the same time, the difference be- tween the groups in height z scores did not alter greatly over time (Table ...at age 18 ...at age 18 ...8 ... See full document

... diplegia, or quadriplegia. CP was also categorized functionally as mild (no ev- idence of clinically important func- tional difficulty related to gait or use of hands), moderate (independent walk- ing but with an abnormal ... See full document

... The Motor Scales include both gross motor and fine motor ...⫽ 6), behavior problem (n ⫽ 58), severe developmental delay (n ⫽ 52), other (n ⫽ 52), sensory impairment and seems to have mild or ... See full document

... 16 years were evaluated as potential ...8 years of age, moderate to late preterm birth was associated with lower FEV 1 (–64 mL [95% CI: –118 to –10] or ... See full document

... corrected age (i.e. the age the infant would be if he had been born on his due ...to 6 months ...psycho- motor development index (PDI) of ...Gross Motor Function Classification ... See full document

... the preterm group, subjects who had received neonatal corticosteroid treatment scored poorer in the domain of social ...lung function and pulmonary CT scans ...the age of eight and maternal infection ... See full document

... ELBW/very preterm and NBW cohorts averaged ...ELBW/very preterm cohort were gen- erally within the average ...ELBW/very preterm cohort were exhibiting clin- ically significant impairments than ... See full document

... or extremely low birthweight (<1500g (VLBW) and <1000g (ELBW) ...gestational age was highly associated with growth ...or preterm children are relatively slim and this was true of our ...and ... See full document

... 19 years had borderline scores (IQ score: 70–79) at the 11-year assessment (Supplemental Fig 3), which would account for the reported high correlation in mean cognitive functioning over ...cognitive ... See full document

... and executive functions (Aarnoudse-Moens, Smidts, Oosterlan, Duivenvoorden, & Weisglas-Kuperus, 2009; Anderson & Doyle, 2004; ...significant after adjustment for IQ (Aarnoudse-Moens, Smidts, et ... See full document

... have motor impairment at 8 years of age compared with children born at ...These motor impairments included higher rates of CP (EP and/ or ELBW: 12%, versus term: 1%) and non-CP motor ... See full document