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That infants of low birth weight have a higher than average incidence of all sorts of handicaps is no longer in dispute, equally there is general agreement that whereas the later progress of most infants of 2000–2500 g is not much different from that of larger born children from similar homes, below this birth weight the incidence of handicap increases steadily as birth weight further decreases (1).
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Drillien, C.M. (1968). Causes of Handicap in the Low Weight Infant. In: Jonxis, J.H.P., Visser, H.K.A., Troelstra, J.A. (eds) Aspects of Praematurity and Dysmaturity. Nutricia Symposium, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3428-9_17
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