Study highlights learning difficulties in children born extremely prematurely

Children born extremely prematurely (before the 26th week of pregnancy) face a high risk of developing learning difficulties by the age of 11, according to UK research published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood Fetal and Neonatal Edition. The findings are an outcome of the EPICure study, which was launched in 1995 with the goal of tracking the survival and long-term health of all babies born below 26 weeks gestation in the UK and Ireland during that year.