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Infants born 2-4 weeks early and weighing less than 2,500 g may face an increased risk of developmental delays, Dr. Mary L. Hediger of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Md., and her associates reported.
But researchers in a separate study found that premature infants who weighed less than 1,500 g at birth were not far behind their normal-birth-weight peers by age 20 in academic achievement and had fewer behavioral deficits.
In the first study, which included 4,621 infants and children aged 2-47 months, low birth weight and low gestational age were significantly associated with lower-than-normal motor and social development scores in infants.
Preterm, low-birth-weight (less than 2,500 g) infants and children scored an average 1.5 points ...