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I was born premature.

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What impact could that have
on the structure of my lungs,

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my breathing when I sleep,
and my physical activity levels?

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Would having an MRI of my lungs
help answer this?

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Thank you for the question.

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Children who are born extremely preterm,
particularly those

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who have bronchopulmonary dysplasia

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or BPD, are at risk of having persisting
lung abnormalities.

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This is because if you're born

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extremely preterm, your lungs have not yet
had a chance to fully develop.

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Our study looked at whether MRI of the lungs, 

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a way of taking pictures of the lungs would help

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to define those pulmonary abnormalities
and look for differences

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between those children who had BPD
and those who didn't.

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We recruited 35 children

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who are school aged
between the ages of seven and nine years,

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and all of them underwent
a lung MRI and a pulmonary function test.

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What we found was that we could detect
structural lung abnormalities

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that were more present in the children

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who had a history of BPD
compared to those who did not.

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We also, as part of this study,
looked at differences in physical activity

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and sleep patterns
between children who had a history of BPD

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and those who didn't
and found no differences.

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The next steps for

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this research
are going to be to embark on a larger CIHR

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funded study that's going to be carried
out at four centers across Canada.

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In this study,
we're going to be looking at MRI

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of the lung in newborns
who were born extremely preterm

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and determining
if the findings on the MRI will help us

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predict their respiratory problems 
over the next two years of life.