Premmies have four-fold risk of poor lung function in early adulthood
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Patients born very preterm or with very low birthweight are four times more likely to have poor lung function in adolescence or early adulthood, according to an Australian-led meta-analysis.
The findings highlight the need for physicians assessing adults with airway disease to ask about the patient’s perinatal history, say the authors from the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Melbourne.