[Characteristics of the development during the 1st year of life of children born to mothers with threatened premature labor of the endocrine etiology].

As many as 50 children with the antenatal period complicated by prematurity risk were subjected to clinical and hormonal studies during the first year of life. To estimate adrenal function, excretion of 17-ketosteroids, corticoids and their fractions with urine was investigated. The children born in a satisfactory state with a physiological body weight and length demonstrated the lag in the establishment of motor and static functions as well as mental retardation. It has been discovered that the clinical course of the early neonatal and subsequent periods of the child's development is dependent on adrenal function.