PMID- 23266929
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20130222
LR  - 20220318
IS  - 1098-4275 (Electronic)
IS  - 0031-4005 (Print)
IS  - 0031-4005 (Linking)
VI  - 131
IP  - 1
DP  - 2013 Jan
TI  - Development at age 36 months in children with deformational plagiocephaly.
PG  - e109-15
LID - 10.1542/peds.2012-1779 [doi]
AB  - OBJECTIVES: Infants and toddlers with deformational plagiocephaly (DP) have been 
      shown to score lower on developmental measures than unaffected children. To 
      determine whether these differences persist, we examined development in 
      36-month-old children with and without a history of DP. METHODS: Participants 
      included 224 children with DP and 231 children without diagnosed DP, all of who 
      had been followed in a longitudinal study since infancy. To confirm the presence 
      or absence of DP, pediatricians blinded to children's case status rated 
      3-dimensional cranial images taken when children were 7 months old on average. 
      The Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development, Third Edition (BSID-III) was 
      administered as a measure of child development. RESULTS: Children with DP scored 
      lower on all scales of the BSID-III than children without DP. Differences were 
      largest in cognition, language, and parent-reported adaptive behavior (adjusted 
      differences = -2.9 to -4.4 standard score points) and smallest in motor 
      development (adjusted difference = -2.7). Children in the control group who did 
      not have previously diagnosed DP but who were later rated by pediatricians to 
      have at least mild cranial deformation also scored lower on the BSID-III than 
      unaffected controls. CONCLUSIONS: Preschool-aged children with a history of DP 
      continue to receive lower developmental scores than unaffected controls. These 
      findings do not imply that DP causes developmental problems, but DP may 
      nonetheless serve as a marker of developmental risk. We encourage clinicians to 
      screen children with DP for developmental concerns to facilitate early 
      identification and intervention.
FAU - Collett, Brent R
AU  - Collett BR
AD  - Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, 
      Seattle, Washington, USA. bcollett@u.washington.edu
FAU - Gray, Kristen E
AU  - Gray KE
FAU - Starr, Jacqueline R
AU  - Starr JR
FAU - Heike, Carrie L
AU  - Heike CL
FAU - Cunningham, Michael L
AU  - Cunningham ML
FAU - Speltz, Matthew L
AU  - Speltz ML
LA  - eng
GR  - R01 HD046565/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/United States
GR  - 1 R01 HD046565/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/United States
GR  - 1 UL1 RR025014/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/United States
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
DEP - 20121224
PL  - United States
TA  - Pediatrics
JT  - Pediatrics
JID - 0376422
SB  - IM
MH  - Child Development/*physiology
MH  - Child, Preschool
MH  - Developmental Disabilities/*epidemiology/*physiopathology/psychology
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Infant
MH  - Longitudinal Studies
MH  - Male
MH  - Plagiocephaly, Nonsynostotic/*epidemiology/*physiopathology/psychology
PMC - PMC3529956
EDAT- 2012/12/26 06:00
MHDA- 2013/02/23 06:00
PMCR- 2014/01/01
CRDT- 2012/12/26 06:00
PHST- 2012/12/26 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2012/12/26 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2013/02/23 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2014/01/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - peds.2012-1779 [pii]
AID - 10.1542/peds.2012-1779 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Pediatrics. 2013 Jan;131(1):e109-15. doi: 10.1542/peds.2012-1779. Epub 2012 Dec 
      24.