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SUBMITTER: Steingass KJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4174277 | biostudies-literature | 2013 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association 20121004 5
<h4>Objective</h4>To examine the rates of discordance in neonatal risk factors and neurodevelopmental outcomes within very low birth weight twin pairs and the factors associated with discordant outcomes.<h4>Study design</h4>Rates of neonatal risk factors and neurodevelopmental outcomes, and discordance in outcomes were examined for 88 very low birth weight twin pairs born between 1990 and 2005 and followed through 20 months' corrected age.<h4>Result</h4>Discordance rates ranged from 17 to 42% fo ...[more]