Department of Pediatrics, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama; Statistics and Epidemiology Unit, RTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina; the Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Michigan and Hutzel Women's Hospital, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan; the Department of Pediatrics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa; the Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California; the Department of Pediatrics, UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas; the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Center for Women's Reproductive Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama; the Department of Global and Community Health, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia; and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Rockville, Maryland.
Corresponding author: Samuel J. Gentle, 1700 6th Ave S., Birmingham, AL 35233; email: sjgentle@uabmc.edu.
The National Institutes of Health and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) (U10 HD21373, UG1 HD21364, UG1 HD21385, UG1 HD27851, UG1 HD27853, UG1 HD27856, UG1 HD27880, UG1 HD27904, UG1 HD34216, UG1 HD36790, UG1 HD40492, UG1 HD40689, UG1 HD53089, UG1 HD53109, UG1 HD68244, UG1 HD68270, UG1 HD68278, UG1 HD68263, UG1 HD68284; UG1 HD87226, UG1 HD87229) and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) (UL1 TR6, UL1 TR41, UL1 TR42, UL1 TR77, UL1 TR93, UL1 TR105, UL1 TR442, UL1 TR454, UL1 TR1117, provided grant support for the Neonatal Research Network, including for the Follow-up Study.
Financial Disclosure Waldemar Carlo disclosed that they are a consultant for Mednax, and they receive expenses reimbursed for travel to board meetings. Roy Heyne disclosed Catholic Health Professionals of Houston paid honorarium for an ethics talk that he gave to this nonprofit entity last year. He is a nonpaid board member of nonprofit Catholic Physicians Guild of Dallas, nonpaid regional director of Catholic Medical Association, and a nonpaid board member and officer of Low Birth Weight Development Center in Dallas. The other authors did not report any potential conflicts of interest.
For a list of investigators who participated in this study, see Appendix 1 online at http://links.lww.com/AOG/B856.
The National Institutes of Health and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) provided grant support for the Neonatal Research Network, including for the Follow-up Study.
Data collected at participating sites of the NICHD Neonatal Research Network (NRN) were transmitted to RTI International, the data coordinating center (DCC) for the network, which stored, managed and analyzed the data for this study. On behalf of the NRN, Dr. Abhik Das (DCC Principal Investigator) and Mr. Scott McDonald (DCC Statistician) had full access to all the data in the study and take responsibility for the integrity of the data and accuracy of the data analysis.
Each author has confirmed compliance with the journal's requirements for authorship.
Peer reviews are available at http://links.lww.com/AOG/B857.
