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Preschool Intelligence of Undersized Term Infants FREE

S. Gorham Babson, MD; John Kangas, PhD
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Received for publication Aug 28, 1968.

Read in part before the annual meeting of the Western Society for Pediatric Research, Portland, Ore, November 1965.

Reprint requests to Department of Pediatrics, University of Oregon Medical School, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Rd, Portland, Ore 97201 (Dr. Babson).


Am J Dis Child. 1969;117(5):553-557. doi:10.1001/archpedi.1969.02100030555009.
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INCREASING attention is being focused on the development of infants restricted in intrauterine growth. Whether such restriction at a critical period of maturation affects brain development and function has not been adequately determined. The present study was designed to determine if term infants who were undersized at birth and without evidence of fetal infection or malformation differ from larger infants of comparable maturity in their general intellectual performance at the preschool level.

Sample and Method  The children studied had been delivered of women registered at the University of Oregon Medical School. The mothers were enrolled in the National Collaborative Study on Cerebral Palsy, Mental Retardation, and Other Neurological and Sensory Disorders of Infancy and Childhood,1 of which this institution is a participating member. They lived in the Portland, Ore, metropolitan area and were eligible for tax supported care.Records of the collaborative study were reviewed to identify the children

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Gruenwald, P.:  Chronic Fetal Distress and Placental Insufficiency , Biol Neonat 5:215-263, 1963;.
Babson, S.G., et al:  Growth and Development of Twins of Dissimilar Size at Birth , Pediatrics 33:327-333 ( (March) ) 1964;.
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Hepner, R., and Bowen, M.:  The Placenta and the Fetus , JAMA 172:427-432 ( (Jan 30) ) 1960;.
Scott, K.E., and Usher, R.:  Fetal Malnutrition: Its Incidence, Causes, and Effects , Amer J Obstet Gynec 94:951-963 ( (April) ) 1966;.
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Ounsted, M.:  Maternal Constraint of Fetal Growth in Man , Develop Med Child Neurol 7: 479-491 ( (Oct) ) 1968;.
Nellhaus, G.:  Composite International and Interracial Graphs , Pediatrics 41:106-114 ( (Jan) ) 1968;.

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References

Drage, J.S.: Proceedings of the Conference on Drugs and Poisoning as Etiological Agents in Mental Retardation , US Public Health Service publication No. 1791, 1968;, pp 139-143.
Lubchenco, L., et al:  Intrauterine Growth as Estimated From Liveborn Birthweight Data at 24 to 42 Weeks of Gestation , Pediatrics 32:793-800 ( (Nov) ) 1963;.
Lubchenco, L.; Hansman, M.; and Boyd, E.:  The Weight, Height, and Head Circumference of Living Infants Born After 24 Weeks of Gestational Age and Graphed as Percentiles , Pediatrics 37: 403-408 ( (March) ) 1966;.
Baird, D.:  The Contribution of Obstetrical Factors to Serious Physical and Mental Handicap in Children , Obstet Gynaec Brit Emp 66:743, 1959;.
Drillien, C.M.: The Growth and Development of the Prematurely Born Infant , Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins Co., 1964;.
Warkany, J.; Monroe, B.B.; and Sutherland, B.S.:  Intrauterine Growth Retardation , Amer J Dis Child 102:249-279 ( (Aug) ) 1961;.
Gruenwald, P.:  Chronic Fetal Distress and Placental Insufficiency , Biol Neonat 5:215-263, 1963;.
Babson, S.G., et al:  Growth and Development of Twins of Dissimilar Size at Birth , Pediatrics 33:327-333 ( (March) ) 1964;.
Pick, W.:  The Malnourished Newborn , Pediatrics 33:1000, 1964;.
Rumboltz, W.L.; Edwards, M.C.; and McGoogan, L.S.:  The Small Full Term Infant and Placental Insufficiency , Western J Surg 69:53-60 ( (March) -April) 1961;.
Hepner, R., and Bowen, M.:  The Placenta and the Fetus , JAMA 172:427-432 ( (Jan 30) ) 1960;.
Scott, K.E., and Usher, R.:  Fetal Malnutrition: Its Incidence, Causes, and Effects , Amer J Obstet Gynec 94:951-963 ( (April) ) 1966;.
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Health Tables , Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, New York, 1964;.
Ounsted, M.:  Maternal Constraint of Fetal Growth in Man , Develop Med Child Neurol 7: 479-491 ( (Oct) ) 1968;.
Nellhaus, G.:  Composite International and Interracial Graphs , Pediatrics 41:106-114 ( (Jan) ) 1968;.

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