DOES THE ANTENATAL DETECTION OF SMALL-FOR-GESTATIONAL-AGE BABIES INFLUENCE THEIR TWO-YEAR OUTCOMES?

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The aim of this paper is to determine whether antenatal detection of small-for-gestational-age (SGA) babies influences 2-year outcomes. All low-birth-weight (p = 0.026), a higher prevalence of febrile convulsions (8.0 vs. 3.1%: p = 0.040) and lower scores on the locomotor (DQA) scale of Griffith's developmental test (p = 0.021) compared with undetected SGA infants. Despite detected SGA fetuses having lower weights and gestation at birth than undetected fetuses, they had significantly lower mortality without a parallel increase in severe 2-year neuro-developmental, clinical, or growth morbidity.

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