Document resource
Although advances in perinatal care have vastly improved survival rates for children born at less than 32 weeks gestational age, a systematic review finds that these children remain at high risk of cognitive impairment ( JAMA Pediatr doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2025.2221). On average, children born very prematurely score 13 points lower on IQ tests than their term born peers. The children in these studies had been born between 1977 and 2016 but, disappointingly, cognitive outcomes didn’t improve over time.