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Gender may influence neuro outcome in ELBW infants.(Obstetrics)
SAN DIEGO -- Female gender in extremely-low-birth-weight infants has a positive influence on the neurodevelopmental outcome at 18-22 months, increasing the Bayley-II Mental Developmental Index scores by 8-10 points, Dr. Regina A. Gargus reported at the annual meeting of the Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics.
"The persistence of this effect over time will need to be reassessed in longer-term studies," said Dr. Gargus, medical director of the Dennis Developmental Center at Arkansas Children's Hospital, Little Rock.
The finding is important because the influence of gender alone on the outcome of extremely-low-birth-weight (ELBW) infants has not been described.
In a study Dr. Gargus conducted during her fellowship at Brown University, Providence, R.I., she and her associates reviewed prospectively collected data from the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) course and follow-up visits of 71 female and 53 male ELBW infant survivors who were admitted to Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island in Providence from January 1, 2000 to December 31, 2001. The infants had a gestational age of less than 32 weeks and a birth weight of less than 1,000 g, and they ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Gender may influence neuro outcome in ELBW infants.(Obstetrics)