Health‐related quality of life of former very preterm infants in adulthood

Baumgardt, Melanie; Bucher, Hans Ulrich; Mieth, Romaine Arlettaz; Fauchère, Jean‐Claude

doi:10.1111/j.1651-2227.2011.02422.x

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“…27 Prematurity on the other hand is associated with personality profiles in adulthood characterized by over-controlling or inhibited tendencies, such as cautiousness, dutifulness, and fewer risk-taking or fun-seeking behaviors. 18,26,[28][29][30] Adolescents who have over-controlling tendencies have fewer intimate relationships, 31 and individuals who have inhibited tendencies have lower likelihood of having a stable romantic partner in young adulthood and get involved with such relationships later than control subjects. 32,33 Although we observed that preterm-born individuals were less likely to engage in romantic relations in young adulthood, they had similar likelihood of moving out of their childhood home as their term-born peers.…”

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“…Previously, adolescents born with extremely low birth weight have been reported to have lower romantic confidence, 5 and young adults born with very low birth weight were less likely to perceive themselves as attractive as their peers. 11 Pretermborn individuals have reported lower athletic competence, physical functioning, and physical activity, 5,11,18 which might affect their self-perceived body image. Those born preterm or with very low birth weight also often have growth problems and in some populations also higher rates of obesity, 11 both of which might affect the self-perceived attractiveness.…”

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“…4,15,16 They also have lower self-perceived attractiveness or romantic confidence, 5,11 and lower educational attainment. 3,4,11,17 Still, those born very preterm or with very low birth weight perceive themselves as healthy and functioning as their peers, 6,[18][19][20][21] and are less likely to drink alcohol or use illicit drugs. 4,11,13,14 However, very preterm or very low birth weight infants comprise only a small proportion of all preterm births, 22 and thus late preterm births (births $34 weeks' but ,37 weeks' gestation) have a high public health impact despite that the degree of immaturity and risks for morbidity are smaller among individuals born late preterm.…”

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Independent Living and Romantic Relations Among Young Adults Born Preterm

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BACKGROUND: Young adults born preterm at very low birth weight start families later. Whether less severe immaturity affects adult social outcomes is poorly known. METHODS: The study “Preterm birth and early life programming of adult health and disease” (ESTER, 2009–2011) identified adults born early preterm (<34 weeks’ gestation, N = 149), late preterm (≥34 to <37 weeks’ gestation, N = 248), and at term (≥37 weeks’ gestation, N = 356) from the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1986 and the Finnish Medical Birth Register (1987–1989), with perinatal data, medical and family history, socioeconomic status, and lifestyle from routine visits or questionnaires. Cox, logistic, and ordinal regressions estimated the hazard and odds ratios (HR and OR) with 95% confidence intervals of outcomes related to preterm birth. RESULTS: Compared with term-born subjects, those born early and late preterm were less likely to have cohabited with a romantic partner (HR, 0.79; [0.61–1.03] and HR, 0.80; [0.65–0.99], respectively) or experienced sexual intercourse (HR, 0.83; [0.66–1.05] and HR, 0.76; [0.63–0.92], respectively) by young adulthood. They also had higher odds of obtaining a 1-point lower score in a visual analog scale of self-perceived sexual attractiveness (OR, 1.45; [1.09–1.98] and OR, 1.44; [1.06–1.97] for early and late preterm birth, respectively). No difference was observed in the likelihood of departing from childhood home and number of individuals having their own families. CONCLUSIONS: Young adults born preterm experience more social challenges, which may affect their romantic relationships and future family planning.

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“…Additionally, using a self-perception profile, which included domains of scholastic competence, social acceptance, athletic competence, and global self-worth, responses did not significantly differ. In a similar cohort of adults (born at weight <1250 g in Zurich), preterm and term controls did not differ on overall physical health or mental health scores on the Short Form 36 Health Survey (Baumgardt et al 2012) (Table 6).…”

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Life Course Health Development Outcomes After Prematurity: Developing a Community, Clinical, and Translational Research Agenda to Optimize Health, Behavior, and Functioning

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et al. 2017

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Long-term survival for infants born extremely prematurely (<28 weeks of gestation) and extremely low birth weight (<1000 g) has increased dramatically due to obstetrical and neonatal advances. However, poverty, inequality, and resulting health disparities are significant contributors to women who give birth to preterm infants and also impact their children’s healthy development and education. While the vast majority of survivors of extreme prematurity do not have the most severe forms of neurodevelopmental disability (i.e., cerebral palsy, blindness, sensorineural hearing loss >55 dB, and intellectual disability), half of survivors can be expected to require special education services at kindergarten entry and during their school years. In addition, there are also high rates of health disparities in the prevalence of preterm birth across the spectrum of gestations including very preterm (28–31 weeks), moderate preterm (32–33 weeks), and late preterm births (34–36 weeks). Life course health development offers a valuable framework for examining how complex medical and social adversities that impact a mother’s health can also impact their child’s health and developmental trajectories. A better understanding of the cumulative impact of protective factors and other buffers that can support prenatal and postnatal parental and child health will provide important insights into how to promote greater resiliency and optimal health development. This population-based information can provide ongoing data for thriving developmental health trajectories for vulnerable preterm survivors with respect to physical, behavioral, and social health outcomes. Though premature infants who receive comprehensive early intervention and preschool educational supportive services have improved outcomes at kindergarten entry, school-age survivors, even those escaping major neurodevelopmental diagnoses, have challenges which impact attention, behavioral regulation, academic achievement, and social skills compared to their full-term peers. Unfortunately, many essential services that can contribute to better outcomes are unnecessarily fragmented and not systematically implemented to provide preventive interventions that optimize health, learning, executive function, social, and adaptive competencies. These cumulative medical, developmental, and social risks among preterm survivors adversely impact long-term adult physical and behavioral health, educational attainment, and social participation. In order to address these disparities, more precise, population-based, health development interventions aimed at optimizing physical and behavioral health, educational achievement, and adaptive competencies will be required. We recommend research strategies to inform our efforts for improving life course outcomes.

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“…Intrauterine and early postnatal growth has consequences throughout life [1,2,3]. Short stature in childhood correlates with short stature in adulthood in children born small for gestational age, as well as in preterm children born appropriate for gestational age who experience postnatal growth restraint in the first few weeks after birth, with a prevalence of short stature close to 20% in adulthood [4,5].…”

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Neonatal Length Growth and Height at Two Years

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Background: Birth length is correlated to height at 2 years and is a predictor of adult height. However, little is known about the relationship between length growth during neonatal hospitalization and height at 2 years. Objectives: The objective was to determine the relationship between length growth during neonatal hospitalization and height at 2 years in preterm infants. Methods: A total of 1,760 preterm infants of less than 35 weeks of gestational age were included. Neonatal length growth was defined by the difference between length Z-scores at discharge and at birth according to Olsen curves. We calculated the odds ratios (OR) before and after adjustment for the risk of being in the 1st quintile of the height Z-score at 2 years. Results: Height at 2 years was positively associated with birth length (p < 0.001) and with neonatal length growth (p < 0.001), whereas birth length and neonatal length growth were inversely correlated (p < 0.001). The risk of being in the 1st quintile of the height Z-score at 2 years was significantly associated with birth length (adjusted OR = 0.43, 95% CI: 0.38-0.49, for one Z-score) and with neonatal length growth (adjusted OR = 0.66, 95% CI: 0.56-0.76, for one Z-score) before and after adjustment for perinatal variables. Conclusions: In addition to birth length, neonatal length growth was associated with height at 2 years. These findings point to the need for a close follow-up of the length of preterm infants during hospitalization, so as to start an early management of those patients.

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Health‐related quality of life of former very preterm infants in adulthood

Cited by 30 publications

References 27 publications

Independent Living and Romantic Relations Among Young Adults Born Preterm

Independent Living and Romantic Relations Among Young Adults Born Preterm

Life Course Health Development Outcomes After Prematurity: Developing a Community, Clinical, and Translational Research Agenda to Optimize Health, Behavior, and Functioning

Neonatal Length Growth and Height at Two Years

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