title: [Long-term non-neurologic morbidity in low birth weight infants. A 3-year follow-up].
abstract: The aim of the present work is to observe non-neurological morbidity in low-birth-weight-neonates during the first year of life, to define their predominance and to establish whether any correlation between the observed pathologies, gestational age and/or birth weight is evident. Respiratory infectious diseases were the most frequent cause of morbidity starting during the first months life. Anemia and osteopenia were significantly related to gestational age, both occurring with high frequency in babies born before 31 weeks of gestational age. In this gestational age group of neonates birth weight did not influence the incidence of the pathologies studied. On the contrary, morbidity was inversely related to birth weight when neonates of greater gestational age were considered. Candidiasis was significantly more frequent in newborn babies weighing at birth less than 2000 grams. Follow-up programs of low-birth-weight neonates give the opportunity to establish nutritional schedules fit for infants born prematurely and to provide precocious diagnosis and therapy apt to minimize infectious respiratory diseases, so often occurring in these babies.
authors.affiliation: Divisione di Neonatologia, Università Catolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Romagnoli
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Luciano
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Rizzo
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Alecci
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Tortorolo
mesh_terms: D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007230:Infant, Low Birth Weight; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007236:Infant, Small for Gestational Age; D009017:Morbidity; D013997:Time Factors
vernacular_title: Patologia non neurologica a distanza nel bambino nato di basso peso. Follow-up a tre anni.