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Parents of children with cerebral palsy (CP) often ask about life expectancy. British investigators followed a cohort of 1942 children with CP who were born between 1966 and 1989. The children were categorized as having early-impairment CP (EICP; 1668 patients) if the cerebral insult occurred prenatally or within 28 days after birth, or late-impairment CP (LICP; 274 patients) if the insult occurred later than 28 days after birth.
In general, survival was better for children with EICP than for those with LICP. By August 2000, 233 children with EICP (14%) and 59 children with LICP (21.5%) had died. With either EICP or LICP, survival was related to the extent of disability: motor (manual dexterity and ambulation), cognitive (intelligence quotie…