Neurodevelopmental outcome of preterm very low birth weight infants admitted to an Italian tertiary center over an 11-year period

<p><strong>This database includes</strong> the raw data linked with the paper &ldquo;<em>Neurodevelopmental outcome of preterm very low birth weight infants admitted to an Italian tertiary center over an 11-year period</em>&rdquo;.</p> <p><strong>In this paper, we reported</strong> the data of perinatal history and neurodevelopmental outcome of a single center cohort of Italian preterm VLBWi born between 2005 and 2015.</p> <p>T<strong>he aim of the study </strong>is to describe neurodevelopmental outcome at 24 months of corrected age and to identify associations between perinatal risk factors and neurodevelopmental outcome.</p> <p><strong>502 VLBWi completed the follow up</strong>. 75.3% showed a normal outcome, 13.9% minor sequelae and 10.8% major sequelae (3.8% cerebral palsy). Male gender (OR 1.59 CI 95% 1.0-2.5 p value 0.043), bronchopulmonary dysplasia (OR 1.7 CI 95% 1.1-2.9 p value 0.026), abnormal neonatal neurological assessment (OR 2.1 CI 95% 1.3-3.4 p value 0.002) and severe brain ultrasound abnormalities (OR 6.1 IC 95% 2.4-15.1 p value &lt;0.001) were independently associated with poor outcome on multivariate ordered logistic regression.</p>