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- Title
Late Effects of Prolonged Labor.
- Authors
Roemer, F.J.; Rowland, D.Y.
- Abstract
The article reports that children who were delivered by cesarean section in the early 1950s after their mothers experienced protracted labor subsequently scored significantly lower on intelligence quotient (IQ) tests than did siblings whose deliveries were uncomplicated. Researchers retrospectively examined 54 cases in which complete data were available both for a child who was born between 1952 and 1954 by cesarean section after prolonged labor and for at least one sibling born by elective cesarean section. They found that at the age of 10, the children born after prolonged labor had a mean IQ score of 107, a little more than 10 points lower than that of their generally younger siblings, and a statistically significant difference. The investigators comment that labor with arrested progress may cause some degree of fetal brain damage and so reduce potential IQ.
- Subjects
INTELLIGENCE levels; LABOR (Obstetrics); CESAREAN section; SIBLINGS; DELIVERY (Obstetrics); CHILDREN; BRAIN damage
- Publication
Family Planning Perspectives, 1991, Vol 23, Issue 4, p149
- ISSN
0014-7354
- Publication type
Article