The article is dedicated to the analysis of features of somatic pathology in children with low, very low and extremely low body weight at birth at different ages of life, according to foreign cohort studies of newborns with different gestational age and weight into electronic databases PubMed, Medscape. The results of the study demonstrated the fact that the vast majority of children in the study population are have impaired the physical and neuropsychological development, and associated with prematurity, respiratory, cardiovascular and hematopoietic diseases in older age. In this connection, currently there is a need not only use latest technology of nursing of newborns with a gestational age less than 37 weeks, which increases the surviva...