“…Annually, about 15 million preterm newborns (PN) are born worldwide, 1 in Brazil the prematurity rate is estimated at 11.5% of total births, about 345,000 children out of approximately 3,000,000 births. 2 In 2016, in the country 315,831 newborns presented gestational age (GA) < 37 weeks, being 43,233 between 22 -to 31 weeks and 40,453 with birth weight (BW) < 1,500g.…”