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Developmental coordination disorder (DCD) is highly prevalent in low-birth-weight (LBW) infants. We investigated the association between aberrant GMs during early infancy and later motor development in LBW infants. The study included infants who fulfilled the following criteria: GMs assessed at 9\u201320 weeks post-term age; developmental quotient (DQ) assessed at 3 years of age using the Kyoto Scale; intelligence quotient (IQ) assessed at 6 years of age. Participants with normal IQs at 6 years of age without a diagnosis of CP (14 males and 37 females, 23\u201336 weeks gestation with birth weights of 492\u20131498 g) were categorized into normal (n = 39) and aberrant (n = 12) groups based on GMs assessment; DQ was compared between the groups. We investigated the items in the DQ assessment and found that the infants in the aberrant group were more frequently unable to perform. Infants in the aberrant group showed a significantly lower DQ in the \u2018postural-motor domain\u2019, and were more frequently unable to \u2018climb the stairs with alternating legs\u2019 and \u2018Jump from a 15\u201320 cm platform\u2019. This study highlights that GMs aberrancy in early infancy is associated with a delayed gross motor development, even in children with a typical development. The GMs assessment may be useful for the prediction of DCD.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/brainsci12060686","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,5,24]],"date-time":"2022-05-24T22:04:06Z","timestamp":1653429846000},"page":"686","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":10,"title":["Association between General Movements Assessment and Later Motor Delay (excluding Cerebral Palsy) in Low-Birth-Weight Infants"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"Hirotaka","family":"Gima","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Physical Therapy, Graduate School of Human Health Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 7-2-10 Higashi-Ogu, Arakawa-ku, Tokyo 116-8551, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Tomohiko","family":"Nakamura","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neonatology, Nagano Children\u2019s Hospital, 3100, Toyoshina, Azumino City, Nagano 399-8288, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,5,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"e957","DOI":"10.1542\/peds.2012-0336","article-title":"Comparison of mortality and morbidity of very low birth weight infants between Canada and Japan","volume":"130","author":"Isayama","year":"2012","journal-title":"Pediatrics"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"531","DOI":"10.1038\/pr.2012.114","article-title":"Trends in morbidity and mortality among very-low-birth-weight infants from 2003 to 2008 in Japan","volume":"72","author":"Kusuda","year":"2012","journal-title":"Pediatr. 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