The Journal of Pediatrics
Volume 154, Issue 4 , Pages 498-503.e2 , April 2009

Maternal Age, Multiple Birth, and Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants

  • Betty R. Vohr, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatrics, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI
    • ,
  • Jon E. Tyson, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, TX
    • ,
  • Linda L. Wright, MD

      Affiliations

    • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
    • ,
  • Rebecca L. Perritt, MS

      Affiliations

    • RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC
    • ,
  • Lei Li, PhD

      Affiliations

    • RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC
    • ,
  • W. Kenneth Poole, PhD

      Affiliations

    • RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC
    • ,
  • NICHD Neonatal Research Network

Received 27 June 2007 ,Revised 23 September 2008 ,Accepted 29 October 2008.

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 The National Institutes of Health and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) provided grant support (Appendix 2; available at www.jpeds.com) for the NICHD Neonatal Research Network's Generic Database Study (Recruitment: 1995-2003) and Follow-up Study. The funding agencies provided overall oversight for study conduct, but all data analyses and interpretation were independent of the funding agencies.

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doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2008.10.044

The Journal of Pediatrics
Volume 154, Issue 4 , Pages 498-503.e2 , April 2009

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