{"id":198964,"date":"2024-11-08T21:23:52","date_gmt":"2024-11-09T03:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/effects-of-preterm-birth-extend-into-adulthood-study-finds"},"modified":"2024-11-08T21:23:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-09T03:23:52","slug":"effects-of-preterm-birth-extend-into-adulthood-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/effects-of-preterm-birth-extend-into-adulthood-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"Effects of preterm birth extend into adulthood, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/effects-of-preterm-birth-extend-into-adulthood-study-finds4.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Individuals born before 37 weeks of gestation, considered to be <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/preterm+infants\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">preterm infants<\/a>, have, on average, lower employment income, university enrollment and <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/educational+attainment\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">educational attainment<\/a> through age 28, according to a study publishing November 6, 2024 in the open-access journal <i>PLOS ONE<\/i> by Petros Pechlivanoglou of The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Preterm birth affects about 10% of all births worldwide and accounts for one in five deaths in <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/children\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">children<\/a>. Economic and lifestyle factors can affect a family\u2019s access to therapies and supports, financial stability and quality of life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Individuals born before 37 weeks of gestation, considered to be preterm infants, have, on average, lower employment income, university enrollment and educational attainment through age 28, according to a study publishing November 6, 2024 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Petros Pechlivanoglou of The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada. Preterm birth affects about [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,39,32,1878,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-economics","category-education","category-employment","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}