Associations Between Maternal Antenatal Corticosteroid Treatment and Mental and Behavioral Disorders in Children

Associations Between Maternal Antenatal Corticosteroid Treatment and Mental and Behavioral Disorders in Children

IMPORTANCE: Maternal antenatal corticosteroid treatment is standard care to accelerate fetal maturation when birth before 34 weeks is imminent. Recently, expansion of the indications beyond 34 gestational weeks has been debated. However, data about long-term outcomes remain limited, especially among...

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Veröffentlicht in:JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association 2020-05, Vol.323 (19), p.1924-1933
Hauptverfasser: Räikkönen, Katri, Gissler, Mika, Kajantie, Eero
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Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Behavior disorders
Children
Corticosteroids
Disorders
Exposure
Fetuses
Gestation
Infants
Original Investigation
Population studies
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Zusammenfassung:IMPORTANCE: Maternal antenatal corticosteroid treatment is standard care to accelerate fetal maturation when birth before 34 weeks is imminent. Recently, expansion of the indications beyond 34 gestational weeks has been debated. However, data about long-term outcomes remain limited, especially among infants who after treatment exposure are born at term. OBJECTIVE: To study if antenatal corticosteroid treatment is associated with mental and behavioral disorders in children born at term (≥37 weeks 0 days’ gestation) and preterm (
ISSN:0098-7484
1538-3598
DOI:10.1001/jama.2020.3937