Prevalence of infectious diseases in preterm infants: a 2-year follow-up from the Japan Environment and Children’s Study

Abstract Evidence regarding the long-term risk of infections in preterm infants is lacking. In this study, we examined whether preterm infants developed various common childhood infections more frequently than full-term infants by the age of 2 years by analyzing data from a questionnaire completed b...

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Main Authors: Kentaro Tamura, Kenta Matsumura, Akiko Tsuchida, Taketoshi Yoshida, Hidekuni Inadera, The Japan Environment and Children’s Study (JECS) Group
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-12-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-26748-0