Antenatal steroids and neurodevelopment in 12-year-old children born extremely preterm.

Olga KochukhovaYlva Fredriksson KaulMartin JohanssonCecilia MontgomeryGerd HolmströmKatarina Strand BroddLena Hellström-Westas

Published in: Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) (2021)

At 12 years of age, very preterm children born in the 2000s still have deficits across several neurodevelopmental domains compared to term-born peers. Administration of antenatal steroids has long-lasting associations to cognition and motor skills in extremely preterm-born children.

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