Unfortunately, our data do not allow for such a comparison as we have no access to the details of postnatal corticosteroid therapy.
At the 1-year assessment, none of the participants of our sample scored above average. The percentage of PDMS-2 scores “below average” was similar to the study by Burger et al. [31], though with a higher rate of “poor” or “very poor” scores. Lee et al. [37]demonstrated that Asian children with VLBW generally have lower PDMS-2 scores than the normative sample from the USA and Canada, though it must be noted that Lee et al. applied the PDMS-2 at 3 and 5 years of age.