Besides AIIMS, the team consisted of researchers from Kasturba Gandhi hospital, and Vardhman Mahavir Medical College and associated Safdarjung hospital. The research team included Shuchita Gupta, Ramesh Agarwal, Kailash Chandra Aggarwal, Harish Chellani, Anil Duggal, Sugandha Arya, Sunita Bhatia, Mari Jeeva Sankar,Vishnubhatla Sreenivas, Vandana Jain, Arun Kumar Gupta, Ashok K Deorari, and Vinod K Paul.
There are more than 15 million preterm births worldwide every year, which is the leading cause of death in children below 5 years of age. Most preterm infants have poor growth and development. In this study also, 34% infants died before hospital discharge and 10% died before 4 months of age.