ABSTRACT

Determine whether SGA constitutes a neurodevelopmental risk-factor of MLP, exploring if potential developmental difficulties at toddlerhood persist and are related to school-age performance. 109 SGA and 109 adequate for gestational age MLP children were evaluated at 2 and at 6.5 y.o. SGA children obtained poorer results in several areas at both timepoints; and their development at toddlerhood strongly correlated with only some results at school-age. SGA confers vulnerability to MLP, evolving from global/unspecific difficulties in toddlerhood to a domain-specific profile (attentional/dysexecutive) at 6.5. Findings claim the need for neuropsychological follow-up in MLP to identify emerging difficulties.

摘要

确定 SGA 是否构成 MLP 的神经发育风险因素，探索幼儿期潜在的发育困难是否持续存在并与学龄表现有关。109 名 SGA 和 109 名适合胎龄的 MLP 儿童在 2 岁和 6.5 岁时进行了评估，在这两个时间点，SGA 儿童在几个方面的结果较差；他们在幼儿时期的发展仅与学龄期的一些结果密切相关。SGA 赋予 MLP 脆弱性，从幼儿时期的全局/非特定困难演变为 6.5 的特定领域配置文件（注意力/执行障碍）。研究结果表明需要对 MLP 进行神经心理学随访以确定新出现的困难。