Vagal Regulation of Heart Rate in the Prediction of Developmental Outcome for Very Low Birth Weight Preterm Infants

• Published in: Child development 1997-04, Vol.68 (2), p.173-186
• Main Authors: Doussard-Roosevelt, Jane A., Porges, Stephen W., Scanlon, John W., Alemi, Behjat, Scanlon, Kathleen B.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Arousal - physiology; Arrhythmia, Sinus - diagnosis; Arrhythmia, Sinus - physiopathology; Babies; Biobehavioral Development, Perception, and Action; Biological and medical sciences; Birth Weight; Cardiac arrhythmia; Child; Child Development; Child, Preschool; Cognitive Development; Development; Developmental Disabilities - diagnosis; Developmental Disabilities - physiopathology; Developmental psychology; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Gestational Age; Health care outcome assessment; Health outcomes; Heart; Heart Rate; Humans; Individual Development; Infant; Infant, Newborn; Infant, Premature, Diseases - diagnosis; Infant, Premature, Diseases - physiopathology; Infant, Very Low Birth Weight; Infants; Intelligence - physiology; Longitudinal Studies; Low birth weight; Male; Motor ability; Motor Skills - physiology; Neuropsychological Tests; Physiological regulation; Predictive Value of Tests; Predictor Variables; Premature Infants; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Psychomotor Disorders - diagnosis; Psychomotor Disorders - physiopathology; Psychomotor Skills; Regulation; Relationship; Respiration; Respiration - physiology; Respiratory Problems; Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia; Risk Factors; Social Development; Socioeconomic status; Vagus Nerve - physiopathology; Very low birth weight babies
• ISSN: 0009-3920; 1467-8624
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1997.tb01934.x

To investigate heart rate and respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) as markers of developmental outcome, infant ECG and 3 year outcome were assessed in 41 very low birth weight (