Long-term effects

Adult prematures have a higher risk of math problems. Early births are relatively specific at academic level (e.g. in language...

In many cases, the GP is the first contact point for physical or mental complaints. He or she listens to the story...

It is often said that a premature is expensive and that there are many costs involved. But how much it costs...

Early birth is a chronic condition. Research has shown that an early birth has consequences even in adulthood. So experienced...

Adult prematures notice that they are clumsy. The degree to which different per person and of course not every premature here suffers...

Being born premature is a trauma. Especially when a NICU recording was needed. Here we speak of preverb trauma...

Adult prematures experience stress in a different way than most people. That's because the development of the autonomic nervous system...

You were born premature, so what? Often prematures receive follow-up from the hospital where they were born. These days, this...

The CPL poli In the polycongenital and perinatal lung disease (CPL) of the Erasmus MC, adults with congenital lung disease...

Lung diseases due to early birth remain unnoticed in many adults. Longarts Lieke Kamphuis of the Erasmus MC estimates that about 60,000 Dutch unnoticed...