POPS 0-2y Dataset
Networks
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Variables
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Associated study
- Netherlands
| Acronym | POPS |
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| Name | Project On Preterm and Small for gestational age infants |
| Study design | Cohort |
| Number of very preterm (VPT) and/or very low birthweight (VLBW) births included in cohort (live & still births) | 1336 |
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Population
POPS Cohort
Population based and nation-wide, see description: 94% of all eligible infants who were live-born in the Netherlands in 1983 (Van der Pal-de Bruin KM, van der Pal SM, Verloove-Vanhorick SP, Walther FJ. Profiling the preterm or VLBW born adolescent; implications of the Dutch POPS cohort follow-up studies. Early Hum Dev. 2015;91(2):97-102.).
Data Collection Event
2 Year Follow Up
At 24 months of corrected age, data were collected by a neonatologist/pediatrician on infant length, weight and head circumference, diseases, visits to health professionals and hospital admission and socioemotional problems. An age appropriate neurodevelopmental assessment was also performed using the Van Wiechen Assessment.