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Transition of extremely low-birth-weight infants from adolescence to young adulthood: comparison with normal birth-weight controlsSaroj Saigal
Department of Pediatrics, and School of Nursing, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
JAMA 295:667-75. 2006..Traditionally, educational attainment, getting a job, living independently, getting married, and parenthood have been considered as markers of successful transition to adulthood...- Psychopathology and social competencies of adolescents who were extremely low birth weightSaroj Saigal
Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Pediatrics 111:969-75. 2003..We have previously shown that infants who were extremely low birth weight (ELBW) are particularly vulnerable to problems related to inattention and hyperactivity at school age. It is not known whether these problems persist to adolescence... - School-age outcomes in children who were extremely low birth weight from four international population-based cohortsSaroj Saigal
Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Pediatrics 112:943-50. 2003..The aim of this study was to determine whether learning and school problems in extremely low birth weight (ELBW) and reference children differ between cohorts in different countries... 
Measurement of quality of life of survivors of neonatal intensive care: critique and implicationsSaroj Saigal
Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Semin Perinatol 32:59-66. 2008..We also describe areas of research that are likely to be fruitful in advancing the consideration of QoL in future studies and in clinical practice...- Self-perceived health-related quality of life of former extremely low birth weight infants at young adulthoodSaroj Saigal
Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8N 3Z5
Pediatrics 118:1140-8. 2006..The goals were to compare the self-reported, health-related quality of life of former extremely low birth weight and normal birth weight infants at young adulthood and to determine whether there were any changes over time... - An overview of mortality and sequelae of preterm birth from infancy to adulthoodSaroj Saigal
Department of Paediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Lancet 371:261-9. 2008..In addition, follow-up to middle age and beyond is warranted to identify the risks, especially for cardiovascular and metabolic disorders that are likely to be experienced by preterm survivors... - Development, reliability and validity of a new measure of overall health for pre-school childrenS Saigal
Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Qual Life Res 14:243-57. 2005..Few comprehensive systems are available for assessing and reporting the overall health of preschool children... - What matters in the long term: reflections on the context of adult outcomes versus detailed measures in childhoodSaroj Saigal
Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University, 1200 Main Street W, Room 4G40, Hamilton, ON L8N 3Z5, Canada
Semin Fetal Neonatal Med 12:415-22. 2007..We will explore the perspectives of different respondents and the need to look beyond the traditional measures to obtain complementary information... - Comparison of current health, functional limitations, and health care use of young adults who were born with extremely low birth weight and normal birth weightSaroj Saigal
McMaster University, Department of Pediatrics, 1200 Main St W, Room 4G40, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8N 3Z5
Pediatrics 119:e562-73. 2007..The objective of this study was to compare the current health status, physical ability, functional limitations, and health care use of extremely low birth weight and normal birth weight young adults... - Growth trajectories of extremely low birth weight infants from birth to young adulthood: a longitudinal, population-based studySaroj Saigal
Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, L8N 3Z5, Canada
Pediatr Res 60:751-8. 2006..However, normalization of BMI for both sexes at adulthood suggests that final growth was proportionate... - Stability of maternal preferences for pediatric health states in the perinatal period and 1 year laterSaroj Saigal
Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 157:261-9. 2003..However, stability of parental preferences for future pediatric health states is unknown during the antenatal and neonatal periods and infancy... - Physical growth and current health status of infants who were of extremely low birth weight and controls at adolescenceS Saigal
Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Pediatrics 108:407-15. 2001..To compare the physical growth, current health status, and utilization of health care resources by extremely low birth weight (ELBW) and control (C) adolescents and to look at changes over time... - Self-esteem of adolescents who were born prematurelySaroj Saigal
Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Pediatrics 109:429-33. 2002.... - Impact of extreme prematurity on family functioning and maternal health 20 years laterSaroj Saigal
McMaster University, Department of Pediatrics, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Pediatrics 126:e81-8. 2010.... - Multiple courses of antenatal corticosteroids for preterm birth study: 2-year outcomesElizabeth V Asztalos
Department of Newborn and Developmental Paediatrics, Centre for Mother, Infant, and Child Research, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, M4 233 2075 Bayview Ave Toronto, Ontario, M4N 3M5, Canada
Pediatrics 126:e1045-55. 2010.... - Differences in preferences for neonatal outcomes among health care professionals, parents, and adolescentsS Saigal
Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University and Children s Hospital at Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation, Ontario, Canada
JAMA 281:1991-7. 1999..Yet little information is available on whether preferences of health care professionals and parents for the resulting health outcomes differ... - Perception of health status and quality of life of extremely low-birth weight survivors. The consumer, the provider, and the childS Saigal
Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Clin Perinatol 27:403-19, x. 2000..The findings have conceptual and practical implications for decision making in the neonatal intensive care unit... - Follow-up of very low birthweight babies to adolescenceS Saigal
Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Semin Neonatol 5:107-18. 2000..Future research should also be directed towards early identification of school difficulties and development of intervention strategies targeted to the most vulnerable infants... - Randomized trial of breastfeeding support in very low-birth-weight infantsJ Pinelli
MSc, DNS, Faculty of Health Sciences, Room 3N25D, McMaster University, 1200 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario L8N 3Z5, Canada
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 155:548-53. 2001.... - Health status and health service utilization of infants and mothers during the first year after neonatal intensive careAnna Spicer
McMaster Children s Hospital, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Adv Neonatal Care 8:33-41. 2008.... - Psychopathology in young adults born at extremely low birth weightM H Boyle
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Psychol Med 41:1763-74. 2011..We test whether young adults aged 22 to 26 years born at ELBW differ from normal birth weight (NBW) controls in self-reported levels of psychopathology... - Shyness and timidity in young adults who were born at extremely low birth weightLouis A Schmidt
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Behaviour, McMaster University and Neuroscience Program, McMaster Institute for Neuroscience Discovery and Study, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Pediatrics 122:e181-7. 2008.... 
Frontal electroencephalogram asymmetry, salivary cortisol, and internalizing behavior problems in young adults who were born at extremely low birth weightLouis A Schmidt
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Child Dev 81:183-99. 2010..Being born at ELBW may have subtle influences on brain-behavior relations even in survivors without major impairments and evidence of these influences may not emerge until young adulthood...- Development and evaluation of an instrument to measure parental satisfaction with quality of care in neonatal follow-upMichelle L Butt
School of Nursing, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
J Dev Behav Pediatr 30:57-65. 2009..The goal of this study was to develop and subsequently evaluate the psychometric properties of a new discriminative instrument to measure parental satisfaction with the quality of care provided in neonatal follow-up (NFU) programs... - Effect of breastmilk consumption on neurodevelopmental outcomes at 6 and 12 months of age in VLBW infantsJanet Pinelli
School of Nursing, Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University, Faculty of Health Sciences 3N25D, 1200 Main St West, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8N 3Z5
Adv Neonatal Care 3:76-87. 2003.... - Aerobic and lung performance in premature children with and without chronic lung disease of prematuritySusi Kriemler
Children s Exercise and Nutrition Centre, Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Clin J Sport Med 15:349-55. 2005.... - Male/female differences in indomethacin effects in preterm infantsArne Ohlsson
University of Toronto, Toronto, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
J Pediatr 147:860-2. 2005..A secondary analysis was performed in the entire "Trial of Indomethacin Prophylaxis in Preterms study" cohort. The results suggest a weak differential treatment effect of indomethacin by sex... - Outcomes of children at 2 years after planned cesarean birth versus planned vaginal birth for breech presentation at term: the International Randomized Term Breech TrialHilary Whyte
Department of Pediatrics, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Am J Obstet Gynecol 191:864-71. 2004..09; 95% CI, 0.52- 2.30; P = .85; risk difference, +0.3%; 95% CI, -1.9%, +2.4%). CONCLUSION: Planned cesarean delivery is not associated with a reduction in risk of death or neurodevelopmental delay in children at 2 years of age... - Planned caesarean section versus planned vaginal birth for breech presentation at term: a randomised multicentre trial. Term Breech Trial Collaborative GroupM E Hannah
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Sunnybrook and Women s College Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lancet 356:1375-83. 2000..For most of these women, the approach to delivery is controversial. We did a randomised trial to compare a policy of planned caesarean section with a policy of planned vaginal birth for selected breech-presentation pregnancies... - Long-term effects of indomethacin prophylaxis in extremely-low-birth-weight infantsB Schmidt
Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont, Canada
N Engl J Med 344:1966-72. 2001..Whether prophylaxis with indomethacin confers any long-term benefits that outweigh the risks of drug-induced reductions in renal, intestinal, and cerebral blood flow is not known... - Qualitative analysis of barriers to breastfeeding in very-low-birthweight infants in the hospital and postdischargeJennifer Callen
McMaster Children s Hospital, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Adv Neonatal Care 5:93-103. 2005..To determine barriers to the successful establishment and maintenance of breastfeeding in very-low-birthweight (VLBW) infants, both in the hospital and after discharge, and changes in barriers over time... - Multiple courses of antenatal corticosteroids for preterm birth (MACS): a randomised controlled trialKellie E Murphy
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Lancet 372:2143-51. 2008..We aimed to find out whether multiple courses of antenatal corticosteroids would reduce neonatal morbidity and mortality without adversely affecting fetal growth... - Outcomes at 3 months after planned cesarean vs planned vaginal delivery for breech presentation at term: the international randomized Term Breech TrialMary E Hannah
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Sunnybrook and Women s College Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
JAMA 287:1822-31. 2002..No randomized controlled trial of planned cesarean delivery has measured benefits and risks of postpartum outcomes months after the birth... - Regional electroencephalogram (EEG) spectral power and hemispheric coherence in young adults born at extremely low birth weightVladimir Miskovic
McMaster Institute for Neuroscience Discovery and Study, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont, Canada L8S 4K1
Clin Neurophysiol 120:231-8. 2009..We examined the effects of extremely low birth weight (ELBW<1000 g) on adult brain functioning... - Outcome of extreme prematurity: as information increases so do the dilemmasJ L Watts
Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University, 1200 Main St W, HSC 3N27, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4J9, Canada
Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 91:F221-5. 2006.... - Using a count of neonatal morbidities to predict poor outcome in extremely low birth weight infants: added role of neonatal infectionDirk Bassler
Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Pediatrics 123:313-8. 2009..Neonatal infection has also been linked with later impairment. We examined whether the addition of infection to the count of 3 neonatal morbidities further improves the prediction of poor outcome... - Health-related quality of life for extremely low birth weight adolescents in Canada, Germany, and the NetherlandsErik Verrips
TNO Prevention and Health, PO Box 2215, 2301 CE Leiden, Netherlands
Pediatrics 122:556-61. 2008..The goal was to compare health-related quality of life of 12- to 16-year-old adolescents born at an extremely low birth weight in regional cohorts from Ontario (Canada), Bavaria (Germany), and the Netherlands... - Reliability of classification of cerebral palsy in low-birthweight children in four countriesNigel Paneth
Department of Epidemiology, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, USA
Dev Med Child Neurol 45:628-33. 2003.... - Comparing directly measured standard gamble scores to HUI2 and HUI3 utility scores: group- and individual-level comparisonsDavid Feeny
Institute of Health Economics, 1200, 10405 Jasper Avenue, Edmonton, Alta, Canada AB T5J 3N4
Soc Sci Med 58:799-809. 2004..HUI2 and HUI3 scores differ systematically. At the individual level, however, HUI2 and HUI3 scores are poor substitutes for directly measured scores... - Prematurity and later cognitive outcomesLex W Doyle
JAMA 288:2542-3; author reply 2543. 2002 - Neonatal survival rates in 860 singleton live births at 24 and 25 weeks gestational age. A Canadian multicentre studySidney B Effer
British Columbia Women's Hospital, Vancouver, Canada
BJOG 109:740-5. 2002.... - Health-related quality of life at age 10 years in very low-birth-weight children with and without threshold retinopathy of prematurityGraham E Quinn
Division of Pediatric Ophthalmology, The Children s Hopsital of Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Arch Ophthalmol 122:1659-66. 2004.... - Outcomes for extremely low-birth-weight infants: disappointing newsJon E Tyson
JAMA 294:371-3. 2005 - The costs of planned cesarean versus planned vaginal birth in the Term Breech TrialRoberto Palencia
Maternal, Infant and Reproductive Health Research Unit at the Centre for Research in Women's Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont
CMAJ 174:1109-13. 2006..INTERPRETATION: Planned cesarean section was found to be less costly than planned vaginal birth for the singleton fetus in a breech presentation at term in the Term Breech Trial...
Research Grants
- Adult Functioning of Extremely Low Birthweight InfantsSaroj Saigal; Fiscal Year: 2004..abstract_text> ..