ArticleDevelopment and psychopathology2021
Preterm birth and risk for language delays before school entry: A sibling-control study.
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- A Parent-Implemented Language Intervention for Late Talkers: An Exploratory Study on Low-Risk Preterm and Full-Term Children.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Trial
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- Social determinants of health and language outcomes in preterm infants with public and private insurance.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2025Article
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- Sitting Acquisition and Early Communication Development: Are There Associations in Very Preterm Infants at Six Months of Corrected Age?Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Onasemnogene-abeparvovec administration to premature infants with spinal muscular atrophy.Annals of clinical and translational neurology · 2024Article
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- Paternal and Maternal Speech at 3 Months Postpartum: An Exploratory Study on the Effect of Parental Role and Birth Weight.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Infant-Directed Speech to Preterm Infants during the First Year Postpartum: The Influence of Preterm Birth Weight and Maternal Parenting Stress.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Developmental outcomes for survivors of placental laser photocoagulation for the management of twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2023Article
- Probing the Impact of Prematurity on Segmentation Abilities in the Context of Bilingualism.Brain sciences · 2023Article
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- Auditory Processing of the Brain Is Enhanced by Parental Singing for Preterm Infants.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- Racial/ethnic and educational inequities in restrictive abortion policy variation and adverse birth outcomes in the United States.BMC health services research · 2021Article
- Prevalence of Language Delay among Healthy Preterm Children, Language Outcomes and Predictive Factors.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
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Abstract
We investigated whether children born preterm are at risk for language delay using a sibling-control design in the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study (MoBa), conducted by the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. Participants included 26,769 siblings born between gestational weeks 23 and 42. Language delay was assessed when the children were 1.5, 3, and 5 years old. To adjust for familial risk factors, comparisons were conducted between preterm and full-term siblings. Pregnancy-specific risk factors were controlled for by means of observed variables. Findings showed that preterm children born before week 37 had increased risk for language delays at 1.5 years. At 3 and 5 years, only children born before week 34 had increased risk for language delay. Children born weeks 29-33 and before week 29 had increased risk for language delay at 1.5 years (RR = 4.51, 95% CI [3.45, 5.88]; RR = 10.32, 95% CI [6.7, 15.80]), 3 years (RR = 1.50, 95% CI [1.02, 2.21]; RR = 2.78, 95% CI [1.09, 7.07]), and 5 years (RR = 1.63, 95% CI [1.06, 2.51]; RR = 2.98, 95% CI [0.87, 10.26]), respectively. In conclusion, children born preterm are at risk for language delays, with familial confounders only explaining a moderate share of the association. This suggests a cause-effect relationship between early preterm birth and risk for language delay in preschool children.
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