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For 25 years, Jennifer Pinto-Martin, the Viola MacInnes/Independence Professor of Nursing at Penn Nursing, has been involved in a longitudinal study examining a cohort of infants with a low birth weight.
Pinto-Martin, also director of the Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities Research and Epidemiology, says medical professionals knew very little in the 1980s about the long-term consequences of prematurity. To determine the lasting effects of being born at low birth weight, the cohort was assessed at ages 2, 6, 9, 16 and 21.
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