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grams was 0.88% or 8.8/1,000 live births. This was less than the incidence reported from other centers at or prior to this time. Forty infants from the total live births from this period were diagnosed with cerebral palsy, 0.21% or 2.1/1,000 live births. Of the 2,271 infants under 2,500 grams 20 had cerebral palsy and represented 50% of the total infants with cerebral palsy in the study. The small for gestational age (SGA) infants represented 18 percent. Appropriate for gestational age (AGA) represented 70 percent, and large for gestational age (LGA) represented 13 percent. For the total survivors there were 40 subjects with cerebral palsy. Only 12 constituted true prematurity (under 36 weeks gestation). The incidence of severe retardation in cerebral palsy showed that prematures survived with higher intelligence quotients. Fifty-eight percent of the prematures had an IQ greater than 70, while only 33 percent of term infants exhibited an IQ greater than 70. Approximately 25 percent of the total cerebral palsy groups had IQ's under 70. Dr. Sofia Franco, Medical Director of the Children and Youth Project, was the primary author of this study. This period was the beginning of the higher survival rates at our institution, across the United States and the world. (Slide)

Twenty years later a study in the Journal of Perinatology by Hiroshi Nishida (1997') reported on the excellent statistics for newborns in Japan, where already longevity for adults is known to be the longest in the world, 76 years for men and 82 years for women.

 

 

 

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