An overview of adult health outcomes after preterm birth

C Crump - Early human development, 2020 - Elsevier
Preterm birth (gestational age< 37 completed weeks) has increased in prevalence in most
countries in the past 20 years and now affects nearly 11% of all births worldwide. Because of
treatment advances introduced in the 1970s–1980s,> 95% of preterm infants who receive
modern neonatal and pediatric care now survive into adulthood. The earliest birth cohorts to
benefit from those advances are now in their 4th and 5th decades of life. A growing number
of large cohort studies have investigated the long-term health sequelae in adulthood …