Neurodevelopment assessment of small for gestational age children in a community-based cohort from Pakistan.
Sabahat NazZahra HoodbhoyAli JaffarSidra KaleemBabar S HasanDevyani ChowdhuryMelissa J GladstonePublished in: Archives of disease in childhood (2022)
SGA exposure is associated with poor performance on overall MDAT, mainly due to changes in the fine motor domain in young children. The scores on the other domains (gross motor, language and social) were also lower among SGAs; however, none of these reached statistical significance. There is a need to design follow-up studies to assess the impact of SGA on child's neurodevelopmental trajectory and school performance.