… Although CP prevalence is still considerably higher in the lower birthweight groups, these …
systems in general, particularly as the decreased prevalence of CP among VLBW and MLBW …

… prevalence of cerebral palsy in high-income countries has declined to 1.6/1000 live births.
Birth prevalence … in health care may lead to increases in CP prevalence, as well as decreases. …

… the prevalence of CP among survivors was constant from 1982–1988 and decreased slowly
… from California documented a decrease in the infant survivor prevalence of CP in children …

… of factors that may contribute to a decreased prevalence of CP, such as the … or decreasing.
The analysis of CP based on birthweight showed, as expected, that the prevalence decreases …

… We investigated the birth prevalence … Cerebral Palsy in Europe (SCPE): by harmonising
definitions and methods, this collaboration provides a reliable source of data on CP prevalence. …

… prevalence of cerebral palsy, in association with the changes in pattern of clinical types and
… birthweight specific prevalence of cerebral palsy will increase with decreasing birthweight. …

… search was done using MeSH headings “cerebral palsy” and “… all cases of CP in a
region from multiple sources and prevalence … In this paper, we use birth cohort prevalence, …

… (through perinatal care) would be a decrease in its prevalence,” 1 assessing trends of CP …
Our CP rates began to fall in 1995-1997, about the same birth time that a decrease was noted …

… Contrary to findings from Surveillance of Cerebral Palsy in Europe, we did not find opposing
trends between spastic bilateral (decreasing) and unilateral (increasing) CP among NBW …

… were responsible for temporal changes in cerebral palsy rates. … infants decreased from
256 per 1000 live births in 1993 to 114 per 1000 live births in 2002, whereas the cerebral palsy …