A population-based, retrospective cohort study conducted in Manitoba has examined the relationship between the 5 minute Apgar score, a measure of newborn children’s health status, and developmental vulnerability at 5 years of age based on the EDI. The authors of the study include Neda Razaz, W. Thomaas Boyce, Marni Brownell, Douglas Jutte, Helen Tremlett, Ruth Ann Marrie, and K.S. Joseph. The authors found that the risk of developmental vulnerability at 5 years is inversely related with the 5 minute Apgar score, meaning the score can serve as an early population-level measure of developmental risk.
The article, published in the ADC Fetal & Neonatal edition, has an abstract available online.