Health, nutrition, and development of children born preterm and low birth weight in rural Rwanda: a cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: As care for preterm and low birth weight (LBW) infants improves in resource-limited settings, more infants are surviving the neonatal period. Preterm and (LBW) infants are at high-risk of nutritional and medical comorbidities, yet little is known about their developmental outcomes in low...

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Published in:BMC Pediatr
Main Authors: Kirk, Catherine M., Uwamungu, Jean Claude, Wilson, Kim, Hedt-Gauthier, Bethany L., Tapela, Neo, Niyigena, Peter, Rusangwa, Christian, Nyishime, Merab, Nahimana, Evrard, Nkikabahizi, Fulgence, Mutaganzwa, Christine, Ngabireyimana, Eric, Mutabazi, Francis, Magge, Hema
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2017
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5688768/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29141590
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-017-0946-1
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