Is it true that a premature born babys life expectancy is shorter they a full term baby?

I was told a premature baby's life expectancy is about 58 to 65 years of age. Where as a full term baby's life expectancty is about 72.Is it true that a premature born babys life expectancy is shorter they a full term baby?
ive never heard of that! and ive read every preemie book there was and seen tons of drs when my toddlers were preemies, yes they have more issues in the beginning of life and have a higher mortality rate than a healthy newborn, but there is no way their life expectancy is shorter from it, no way to tell either since everyone lives different lifestylesIs it true that a premature born babys life expectancy is shorter they a full term baby?
The reason this is true is because it's based off an average. Unfortunately some of the babies born prematurely do not survive - so you are dealing with statistics in which a higher number of babies will not survive to their first birthday compared with the general population. For example, if you are doing an average with a hundred full term babies the average life expectancy is 72...if you do an average of a hundred premies and ten of those did not make it out of infancy, that will bring the overall average down, however the average of the ninety premies that survived infancy may well be 72 as well. (I just used some round numbers for an example.) So if your baby is born prematurely but is able to overcome the health obstacles of their first year of life, then your baby is not necessarily more likely to have a shorter life because of their prematurity. The statistics for both groups would probably be closer together if babies who died within their first year as a result of their prematurity were not grouped with those who made it to adulthood in life expectancy data. Make sense?
I doubt that's true, if for no other reason than there is no way to have reliable data for a study. There's no way a long-term evaluation could have been done, and here's why: 30 or 40 years ago, pre-term neonatal treatment was basically just watch and pray, and the smallest pre-term babies wouldn't survive. Neonatology has seen tremendous advances in the past two decades, and even micro-preemies are surviving at rates never before imagined. The study would have to have started in the 1980's at the earliest and those babies would only be in their 30's now.
No its not true. I read and researched as much as I could when my daughter tried to come 8 weeks early. What may be happening is that they're taking an average of premature babies...those that don't make it at birth and those that live full lives...if they do that then it would make the age significantly lower than a full term baby. Even then you'd have to take into account how premature the baby is. You'd also have to look into that report to see what they consider full term...37 weeks or 40.
it probably just depends on how premature the baby was born...


2 weeks or less it probably doesn't make a difference. :/