Gestational Age

Groups with shorter fetal maturity at birth had slightly higher rates of multiple neuropsychiatric disorders while groups with the longest fetal maturity exhibited the lowest rates for most disorders.

Results of a meta-analysis demonstrated that lower gestational age and weight were important risk factors associated with lower IQ scores into adulthood, researchers reported in JAMA Pediatrics.

Children born small for gestational age experienced greater relative risk for sudden cardiac death at a young age compared with those born a normal weight, according to data published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

Preeclampsia was associated with a twofold increased risk for HF, but gestational hypertension was not, according to a study of Norwegian women published in Hypertension.

Boys who are born small for their gestational age, or SGA, have a higher risk for being diagnosed with infertility in adulthood, according to a Danish study published in Human Reproduction.

Women who fall asleep in a supine position during the third trimester of pregnancy are more likely to have infants with reduced birth weight, according to findings published in JAMA Network Open.

Advances in science and medicine have dramatically improved the odds of survival for premature infants. However, these babies continue to face significant challenges, both immediately after birth and throughout their lives.

Infants who were born with a low birth weight for their gestational age were approximately two times more likely to have malaria infection or clinical malaria compared with infants born at a normal weight, according to research published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases.