Pre-term and low birthweight newborns have fewer fractures in childhood than others
Pre-term and low birthweight infants have fewer fractures in childhood than full-term and normal-weight newborns, according to a new a study from the University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital. The register-based cohort study from Finland utilised the nationwide Medical Birth Register, the Care Register for Health Care, and data provided by Statistics Finland. The analysis included data on one million children and nearly 100,000 fractures. Children born very pre-term or with extremely low birthweight are known to be at risk of metabolic bone disease of prematurity, as