School-aged neurodevelopmental outcomes for children born extremely preterm

As survival rates for children born extremely preterm (EP, <28 weeks’ gestation) have increased with advances in perinatal and neonatal care, their long-term functioning quality of life assume more importance. Outcomes early childhood provide some information, but outcomes at school-age are informative life-long functioning. Children EP substantially higher intellectual impairment, poorer executive, academic motor function, neurodevelopmental disability, health-related than do contemporaneous term-born controls. Because the adverse remain unacceptably high, particularly since may be deteriorating rather improving over time, new strategies to ameliorate these problems, targeting periods before, during after birth, throughout lifespan, a priority.