. . .cerebral palsy rates in infants with birth weights under 1500 g increased from 12.1 to 64.9 [per 1000 births].These results, which are similar to those found in other developed countries, suggest that improved perinatal care, including increased use of interventions to prevent perinatal asphyxia, has improved neonatal survival but not the rate of cerebral palsy. In low-birth-weight infants the rising cerebral palsy rate has paralleled the improvement in survival; one explanation for this finding is that low birth weight and cerebral palsy both result from an insult that occurs well before birth.
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