The male disadvantage in very low birthweight infants: Does it really exist?

In a nationwide collaborative study in the Netherlands, perinatal and follow up data were collected on 1338 liveborn very preterm (<32 weeks) and/or very low birth-weight (VLBW) infants (<1500g). In this group, the mortality risk was similar for both male and female infants. The handicap risk, however, was significantly greater for boys than for...

De betekenis van de passagere hypothyroxinemie voor mortaliteit en ontwikkeling bij kinderen met zeer korte zwangerschapsduur en/of een zeer laag geboortetegewicht.

Mortality in very preterm and very low birth weight infants according to place of birth and level of care: Results of a national collaborative survey of preterm and very low birth weight infants in The Netherlands

As part of a collaborative project in the Netherlands in 1983, for which data were collected on 1,338 newborn infants (less than 32 weeks' gestation and/or less than 1,500 g birth weight), all infants were assigned to one of three levels of care according to hospital of birth. Considerable centralization was achieved by antenatal and neonatal...

Project on preterm and small for gestational age infants in the Netherlands 1983: a collaborative survey

Importance of gestational age

Postneonatal mortality: Editorial correspondence

Neonatal mortality risk in relation to gestational age and birthweight. Results of a national survey of preterm and very-low-birthweight infants in the Netherlands

In a cohort of 1338 very preterm and/or very-low-birthweight infants, representing 94% of all infants born alive after less than 32 weeks' gestation or weighing less than 1500 g in the Netherlands in 1983, the neonatal mortality rate was 233 per 1000. In these infants, the best obstetric estimate of gestational age was a better predictor of...