Are newborn outcomes different for term babies who were exposed to antenatal corticosteroids?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Antenatal corticosteroids improve newborn outcomes for preterm infants. However, predicting which women presenting for threatened preterm labor will have preterm infants is inaccurate, and many women receive antenatal corticosteroids but then go on to deliver at term.

Objective

This study aimed to compare the short-term outcomes of infants born at term to women who received betamethasone for threatened preterm labor with infants who were not exposed to betamethasone in utero.

Study design

We performed a retrospective cohort study of infants born at or after 37 weeks' gestational age to mothers diagnosed as having threatened preterm labor during pregnancy. The primary neonatal outcomes of interest included transient tachypnea of the newborn, neonatal intensi

SUBMITTER: McKinzie AH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8563505 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature