Adults Who Were Preterm Babies Have 'Older' Brains, Finds Study

Adults Who Were Preterm Babies Have ‘Older’ Brains, Finds Study

27th September, 2017

29 September 2017, Newsletter, NICU, Preemies

[Source: Medical News Today]

Researchers identified changes in the brain structure of adults born between 28 and 32 weeks gestation that corresponded with accelerated brain aging, meaning that their brains appeared older than those of their non-preterm counterparts.

Lead study author Dr. Chiara Nosarti, of the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London in the United Kingdom, and colleagues recently reported their findings in the journal Neuroimage.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), around 1 in 10 infants born in the United States in 2015 were preterm, meaning that they were born before 37 weeks of pregnancy.

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