Premature boys have more problems than premature girls

Two days ago, Lola told us that International Premature Baby Day was celebrated, in homage to all those children who struggle so much since they are born to survive. It seems that in this struggle the evolution of their health depends only on the work of the professionals, on the affection of the parents and on the moment of the gestation in which they are born, at least as main factors.

However, this is not the case, because a recent study shows that premature boys have more problems than premature girls, and when I say more problems I mean that they are more likely to have a disability and more likely to die.

The study in question is a sum of six studies carried out by authors from around the world, whose intention is to see how they can change the chances of suffering a disability or even of dying as you are born in one place or another.

When analyzing all this, the authors observed that premature male children are at greater risk of suffering from blindness or deafness, having learning problems, motor problems, infections, jaundice, etc., and this greater risk is apparently due to the fact that matrix mature girls faster than boys, being born with the lungs and other organs more mature and developed and, consequently, more prepared for life than children.

This is obviously relevant and logical in countries like ours in which both boys and girls are given equal attention. In other countries where more medical care and better nutrition are offered to boys than girls, this fact is reversed, and girls are more likely to die than boys.

Also analyzing data from the comparison with other countries (which I comment because I find it interesting, since they analyzed data from 15 million premature babies around the world), they saw the following:

  • In high income countries more than 80% of premature babies survive And they have a good prognosis. The risk of death and disability is greater when babies are born with less than 28 weeks gestation.
  • In middle-income countries, the risk of disability when babies are born between weeks 28 and 32 is twice as high as in high-income countries.
  • In low-income countries premature babies are twice as likely to suffer a disability and 10 times more likely to die than babies in high-income countries.

As you can see, all this confirms what they were looking for in the original study, that depending on where you are born, the risk of living or dying and the risk of living a healthy life without disability is very different.

On the other hand, focusing on the title of the post and the message I wanted to offer you, we see once again that nature seems to grant more survival power to women than men, probably because of a matter of logic: the number of children a woman can have is much less than the number of children a man can have, so it is interesting that the woman lives and survives so that the species continues to multiply (well, Nature is interested, we are interested in the survival of the whole world, since we have invented families and that leaving various pregnant women to procreate is not very fashionable).

Video: Neonatal Intensive Care for Premature Baby (March 2024).