Increased Steroid Excretion in Children with Extremely Low Birth Weight at a Median Age of 9.8 years

Events during foetal or early extrauterine life may affect bodily structure and/or functions and even pave the way for adult diseases.To find whether extremely low birth weight (ELBW) infants differ from healthy controls regarding the excretion of steroid metabolites.The study compared 17 female and 10 male ELBW infants, all prepubertal, aged 8-11 years, birth weight <1,000 g, with 27 age- and sex-matched controls. All were healthy at the time...