Very low birth weight (VLBW) babies are at risk of long term growth and neurodevelopmental disabilities. There is plenty of literature available from western countries however unfortunately very scanty data is available from our country. Our babies are different than babies born in the west due to differences in racial, cultural and socioeconomic factors. Hence we need to have our own data for the long term growth and neurodevelopment of our VLBW babies. We are proposing the following guidelines to formulate the long term follow up studies for high risk newborns.
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