Surviving premature babies in Malawi continue to have poor growth rates and development delay

Tuesday, November 8, 2011 - 18:01 in Health & Medicine

A detailed study from Malawi, published in this week's PLoS Medicine, shows that during the first 2 years of life, infants who were born prematurely (before 37 weeks gestation) continue to have a higher risk of death than infants born at term and are also more likely to have poorer growth and developmental delay.

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