Re: The dangers of prenatal steroids
From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Thu Dec 27 17:08:22 2007
I first read that as ALTOIDS lol.
Art
At Thu, 27 Dec 2007, Raymond Stephen wrote:
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>You need to look at the ACTOIDS Trial before you go gaga over this
>review, which is 6 years old!
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>Steve
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>http://www.narof.org/docs/steroids.htm
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>Preemies on Steroids: A New Iatrogenic Disaster? by Helen Harrison
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>Published in Birth March 2001, Vol.28, No. 1, pp.57-59.
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>At the Hot Topics in Neonatology conference last December, Dr. Barbara
>Schmidt referred to the year 2000 as "Annus Terribilis" for her
>profession.1 Large studies from the NICHD2 in the US and the EPICure
>group3 in the UK had revealed unexpectedly grim outcome statistics for
>extremely low birthweight and short gestation babies -- a 50% rate of
>disability serious enough to be diagnosed by two to three years of age .
>Because follow up at such early ages reveals only a fraction of the
>impairments diagnosed by mid to late childhood,4 the eventual toll in
>disability promises to be considerably higher.3 Premature birth, it was
>also reported, permanently disorganizes and reduces the size of the
>brain, adversely affecting cognition and behavior.5, 6 The more
>premature the infant, the smaller and more abnormal the brain.5 Adult
>cardiovascular disease, underdeveloped kidneys and diabetes were further
>linked to low birth weight. 7 It had become increasingly apparent that
>improved survival among extremely preterm infants was producing greater
>numbers of children with permanent health impairments and handicaps.8
>Further, some of this disability was linked to iatrogenic causes,2 a
>result of the continued haphazard use of poorly evaluated therapies in
>perinatal and neonatal care. 9, 10
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