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Extremely Preterm Babies Face Long-Term Lung Deficits
More than half of children who were born very early-at 25 weeks or less (normal gestation is around 40 weeks)- have abnormal lung function and are twice as likely as their full-term peers to have a diagnosis of asthma, according to U.K. researchers, who followed a national cohort of extremely preterm infants to age 11. “Following extremely preterm birth, impaired lung function and increased …