Introduction:

advances in perinatal care have allowed greater survival of very low birth weight newborns (less than 1 500 grams) susceptible to diseases that impair their growth and development.

Objective:

to describe some variables related to growth and development at one year of corrected age of very low birth weight newborns attended at the Neonatal Care Service in Villa Clara between July 2018 and July 2019 who survived.

Methods:

a prospective longitudinal descriptive study was conducted at the “Mariana Grajales” Hospital in Santa Clara City. The sample consisted of 45 patients who attended uninterruptedly to the follow-up consultation of at-risk infants performed at the institution. A form was prepared for the collection of primary data which included qualitative and quantitative variables that were tabulated; tables and graphs were prepared.

Results:

it was found that at one year of age corrected according to the reference tables, almost half of the children did not have adequate weight compared to non-risk patients and others had low height and head circumference lower (or both) than the corresponding height. More than one third of the total had some degree of malnutrition, less than one percent of the children had delayed psychomotor development and the majority had delayed tooth eruption.

Conclusions:

at one year of corrected age, most of the very low birth weight newborns had some degree of growth and developmental delay.

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