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  • Anna Baranowska-Rataj, Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, Umeå University. Foto: Przemysław Chrostowski

    Premature children do well in school

    When looking at school grades, researchers did not find any negative effects of being born moderately preterm. Only those born extremely preterm had poorer school grades. But for children born extremely preterm, going to schools in the top decile of school districts made them perform as good as full-term children in an average school district.
    How do preterm birth effect children’s school grade