Birth weight and cognitive function at age 11 years: the Scottish Mental Survey 1932
| Autor: | Shenkin, S, Starr, J, Pattie, A, Rush, M, Whalley, L, Deary, I, PHARAOH, E. P. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
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Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty Barker hypothesis Illegitimacy Birth weight Social class Statistics Nonparametric Cohort Studies Child Development Cognition Medicine Birth Weight Humans Child Retrospective Studies Intelligence Tests Intelligence quotient business.industry Age Factors Infant Newborn Retrospective cohort study intelligence Lothian birth-cohort studies Child development Parity Community Child Health Public Health and Epidemiology Social Class Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Cohort Linear Models Female Lothian Birth Cohort Studies business Demography Cohort study |
| Popis: | AIMS---To examine the relation between birth weight and cognitive function at age 11 years, and to examine whether this relation is independent of social class. METHODS---Retrospective cohort study based on birth records from 1921 and cognitive function measured while at school at age 11 in 1932. Subjects were 985 live singletons born in the Edinburgh Royal Maternity and Simpson Memorial Hospital in 1921. Moray House Test scores from the Scottish Mental Survey 1932 were traced on 449 of these children. RESULTS---Mean score on Moray House Test increased from 30.6 at a birth weight of |
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