Original ArticleAdults Born at Very Low Birth Weight Exercise Less than Their Peers Born at Term
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Methods
This study is a part of the Helsinki Study of Very Low Birth Weight Adults. The study cohort has been described in detail.1, 17 In brief, the original VLBW cohort consisted of 335 consecutive VLBW infants who were born between January 1978 and December 1985 and were discharged alive from the neonatal intensive care unit of Children's Hospital at Helsinki University Central Hospital, serving the province of Uusimaa, Finland. We selected a comparison group from all consecutive births at their
Results
Clinical characteristics relevant to this study are shown in Table I. More detailed characteristics of the cohort have been described.17
Discussion
We found that unimpaired young adults born at VLBW are physically more inactive during leisure time than their peers born at term. This difference is characterized by a lower frequency, intensity, and average session duration of leisure-time conditioning physical activity, and it is not explained by potential confounding factors, including socioeconomic status, maternal smoking during pregnancy, current smoking of the subject, or a history of bronchopulmonary dysplasia or asthma. Although the
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