Infant developmental milestones and adult intelligence: A 34-year follow-up

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Infant developmental milestones and adult intelligence : A 34-year follow-up. / Flensborg-Madsen, Trine; Mortensen, Erik Lykke.

In: Early Human Development, Vol. 91, No. 7, 07.2015, p. 393-400.

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Flensborg-Madsen, T & Mortensen, EL 2015, 'Infant developmental milestones and adult intelligence: A 34-year follow-up', Early Human Development, vol. 91, no. 7, pp. 393-400. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2015.04.006

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Flensborg-Madsen, T., & Mortensen, E. L. (2015). Infant developmental milestones and adult intelligence: A 34-year follow-up. Early Human Development, 91(7), 393-400. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2015.04.006

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Flensborg-Madsen T, Mortensen EL. Infant developmental milestones and adult intelligence: A 34-year follow-up. Early Human Development. 2015 Jul;91(7):393-400. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2015.04.006

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Flensborg-Madsen, Trine ; Mortensen, Erik Lykke. / Infant developmental milestones and adult intelligence : A 34-year follow-up. In: Early Human Development. 2015 ; Vol. 91, No. 7. pp. 393-400.

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abstract = "Background: A number of studies suggest a positive association between faster infant motor development and intellectual function in childhood and adolescence. However, studies investigating the relationship between infantmotor development and intelligence in adulthood are lacking.Aims: To investigate whether age at achievement of 12 motor developmental milestones was associated with adult intelligence and to evaluate the influence of sex, parental social status, parity,mother's cigarette consumptionin the last trimester, gestational age, birthweight, and birth length on this association.Methods: Mothers of 9125 children of the Copenhagen Perinatal Cohort recorded 12 developmental milestones during the child's first year of life. A subsample of the cohort comprising 1155 individuals participated in a follow-up when they were aged 20–34 years and were administered the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS). Associations between motor developmental milestones and IQwere analysed bymultiple linear regressionadjusting for potential confounding factors.Results: Later acquisition of infant developmental milestones was associated with lower subsequent IQ, and the majority of significant associations were found for Performance IQ. Correlations were generally small(r b 0.10), but significant interactions were found between parental social status and age of attaining developmental milestones, with associations being significantly stronger in the offspring of lower social status parents.The effects remained significant after adjusting for possible confounding factors.Conclusion: This is the first study to find significant interactions with parental social status, thereby suggesting that associations between early motor development and intelligence are stronger in infants of low social statusparents.",
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N2 - Background: A number of studies suggest a positive association between faster infant motor development and intellectual function in childhood and adolescence. However, studies investigating the relationship between infantmotor development and intelligence in adulthood are lacking.Aims: To investigate whether age at achievement of 12 motor developmental milestones was associated with adult intelligence and to evaluate the influence of sex, parental social status, parity,mother's cigarette consumptionin the last trimester, gestational age, birthweight, and birth length on this association.Methods: Mothers of 9125 children of the Copenhagen Perinatal Cohort recorded 12 developmental milestones during the child's first year of life. A subsample of the cohort comprising 1155 individuals participated in a follow-up when they were aged 20–34 years and were administered the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS). Associations between motor developmental milestones and IQwere analysed bymultiple linear regressionadjusting for potential confounding factors.Results: Later acquisition of infant developmental milestones was associated with lower subsequent IQ, and the majority of significant associations were found for Performance IQ. Correlations were generally small(r b 0.10), but significant interactions were found between parental social status and age of attaining developmental milestones, with associations being significantly stronger in the offspring of lower social status parents.The effects remained significant after adjusting for possible confounding factors.Conclusion: This is the first study to find significant interactions with parental social status, thereby suggesting that associations between early motor development and intelligence are stronger in infants of low social statusparents.

AB - Background: A number of studies suggest a positive association between faster infant motor development and intellectual function in childhood and adolescence. However, studies investigating the relationship between infantmotor development and intelligence in adulthood are lacking.Aims: To investigate whether age at achievement of 12 motor developmental milestones was associated with adult intelligence and to evaluate the influence of sex, parental social status, parity,mother's cigarette consumptionin the last trimester, gestational age, birthweight, and birth length on this association.Methods: Mothers of 9125 children of the Copenhagen Perinatal Cohort recorded 12 developmental milestones during the child's first year of life. A subsample of the cohort comprising 1155 individuals participated in a follow-up when they were aged 20–34 years and were administered the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS). Associations between motor developmental milestones and IQwere analysed bymultiple linear regressionadjusting for potential confounding factors.Results: Later acquisition of infant developmental milestones was associated with lower subsequent IQ, and the majority of significant associations were found for Performance IQ. Correlations were generally small(r b 0.10), but significant interactions were found between parental social status and age of attaining developmental milestones, with associations being significantly stronger in the offspring of lower social status parents.The effects remained significant after adjusting for possible confounding factors.Conclusion: This is the first study to find significant interactions with parental social status, thereby suggesting that associations between early motor development and intelligence are stronger in infants of low social statusparents.

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