Octavia-Andreea Ciora, Tanja Seegmüller, Johannes S Fischer, Theresa Wirth, Friederike Häfner, Sophia Stoecklein, Andreas W Flemmer, Kai Förster, Alida Kindt, Dirk Bassler, Christian F Poets, Narges Ahmidi, Anne Hilgendorff
BACKGROUND: Long-term survival after premature birth is significantly determined by development of morbidities, primarily affecting the cardio-respiratory or central nervous system. Existing studies are limited to pairwise morbidity associations, thereby lacking a holistic understanding of morbidity co-occurrence and respective risk profiles. METHODS: Our study, for the first time, aimed at delineating and characterizing morbidity profiles at near-term age and investigated the most prevalent morbidities in preterm infants: bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), pulmonary hypertension (PH), mild cardiac defects, perinatal brain pathology and retinopathy of prematurity (ROP)...
April 11, 2024: BMC Pediatrics