Published in New England Journal of Medicine · View the paper (DOI)
Researchers found that survival rates increased from 30% to 36% among over 4,000 extremely preterm infants born between 2000 and 2011. Additionally, the proportion of survivors without neurological impairment rose from 16% to 20%. The authors attribute these improvements to advances in prenatal care and antenatal steroids.
Coverage from 2 institutions
- Survival rate may be improving for extremely preterm infants NIH/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development · Feb 15, 2017 · first to report
- More extremely preterm babies survive, live without neurological impairment Duke University Medical Center · Feb 15, 2017