Features of growth and neurodevelopmental outcomes of children with birth weight less than 2500 grams during different ages of life: review of studies over the past 10 years

The article is dedicated to the analysis of features of growth and neurodevelopmental outcomes of low birth weight infants during different ages of life, according to the data of domestic and foreign studies published over the past 10 years, into electronic databases PubMed, Medscape. Results of the study demonstrated the fact that, as before, majority of children in the study population in the older age have pronounced deviations in growth, motor and cognitive development, great academic failure, behavioral problems. At the same time, many authors note the emergence of a positive trend towards a decrease in the frequency of the above conditions in the cohorts of children born in recent years.