Kristie McNealy, MD

Just a quick blurb for today. It’s a recognized fact that premature girls tend to have less respiratory problems than their male counterparts. However, when a girl happens to have a boy twin, that advantage disappears. While most twin studies focus on life after birth, it’s now clearer than ever that having [...]

A recent study published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine shows that even healthy preemies have decreased respiratory function into the second year of life. Researchers performed pulmonary function tests on preemies born between 30 and 34 weeks gestation at an average of 15 months of age, and compared them [...]