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Growth in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Influences Neurodevelopmental and Growth Outcomes of Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants

Richard A. Ehrenkranz, Anna M. Dusick, Betty R. Vohr, Linda L. Wright, Lisa A. Wrage, W. Kenneth Poole

PEDIATRICS · 2006 · 1.3K citations · 27 references

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Abstract

These analyses suggest that growth velocity during an ELBW infant's NICU hospitalization exerts a significant, and possibly independent, effect on neurodevelopmental and growth outcomes at 18 to 22 months' corrected age.

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