Lung function in extremely preterm infants fell significantly below trajectories of term-born children in early adult life, researchers reported in BMJ Thorax.
“This is the first longitudinal study to describe lung function trajectories from childhood and well into adulthood for population-based cohorts of extremely preterm-born survivors,” Tonje Bårdsen, MD, from the department of pediatrics at Haukeland University Hospital and the department of clinical science at the University of Bergen in Norway, and colleagues wrote.
The study aimed to evaluate lung function trajectories from