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In very small premature babies, the brain chemical ratio measured in certain areas doesn’t tell us whether they’ll develop normally or have problems later, even though this ratio naturally goes up as the baby gets older.
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The study checked brain chemical levels in premature babies and found that those levels didn’t predict whether the babies would develop normally or not by age 2, even though the levels naturally went up as the babies got older—just like the claim said.
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