TY - JOUR
T1 - Children with cerebral palsy: severity and trends over time
AU - Surman, G
AU - Hemming, Karla
AU - Platt, MJ
AU - Parkes, J
AU - Green, A
AU - Hutton, J
AU - Kurinczuk, JJ
PY - 2009/11/1
Y1 - 2009/11/1
N2 - Increasingly, more very-low-birthweight infants in the developed world are now expected to survive the neonatal period than was previously the case. There are concerns that there may be a related increase in the number of infants developing severe sensorimotor impairments. Pooled data from five registers contributing to the UK Network of Cerebral Palsy Registers, Surveys and Databases were used to identify patterns of motor impairment in relation to additional impairments and to birthweight, and to assess whether prevalence of cerebral palsy (CP) by birthweight and by severity of motor impairment had changed over time. Low-birthweight infants are at greater risk of developing CP than larger-birthweight babies. The CP rate amongst children with birthweights or = 2500 g, 23% compared with 15% weighing
AB - Increasingly, more very-low-birthweight infants in the developed world are now expected to survive the neonatal period than was previously the case. There are concerns that there may be a related increase in the number of infants developing severe sensorimotor impairments. Pooled data from five registers contributing to the UK Network of Cerebral Palsy Registers, Surveys and Databases were used to identify patterns of motor impairment in relation to additional impairments and to birthweight, and to assess whether prevalence of cerebral palsy (CP) by birthweight and by severity of motor impairment had changed over time. Low-birthweight infants are at greater risk of developing CP than larger-birthweight babies. The CP rate amongst children with birthweights or = 2500 g, 23% compared with 15% weighing
U2 - 10.1111/j.1365-3016.2009.01060.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1365-3016.2009.01060.x
M3 - Article
C2 - 19840287
SN - 1365-3016
VL - 23
SP - 513
EP - 521
JO - Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology
JF - Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology
IS - 6
ER -