EFFECT OF APNEA NEONATORUM ON INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT

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The intelligence of a group of 41 children who had been apneic for three or more minutes at birth was compared with that of a control group of 43 children who had breathed spontaneously at birth. The children were 13 and 14 years old at the time of the study. All the children had been born in the Cincinnati General Hospital in 1937 and therefore should derive from an essentially similar socio-economic strata. Insofar as seemed possible, all cases with factors that might in themselves have impaired the child's motor or intellectual development were excluded. Individual intelligence tests were administered. A statistical analysis of the results of these tests revealed no significant difference between the intelligence of the apneic and control group.

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