Neonatal Medicine
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Toddlers’ neurodevelopmental deficits linked with maternal diabetes
Children born to obese mothers with insulin-requiring type 2 diabetes showed neurodevelopmental deficits at age 2 years.
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Capping gestational weight gain didn’t deliver better pregnancy outcomes
Behavioral interventions moderated gestational weight gain, but reduced weight gain wasn’t linked to better pregnancy outcomes.
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Don’t delay pneumococcal conjugate vaccine for preterm infants
Streptococcus pneumoniae
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Hypothermia confers no benefits in children with cardiac arrest
Survival and neurobehavioral function did not differ at 1 year following cardiac arrest.
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Delayed cord clamping cuts anemia for 1 year
Delaying the clamping of the umbilical cord for 3 minutes decreased anemia for as long as 1 year in a high-risk population.
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NAS linked to poor and deteriorating school performance
A neonatal diagnostic code of neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) is strongly associated with poor and deteriorating school performance.
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First-trimester blood glucose predicts congenital heart disease risk
NEW ORLEANS – A single random maternal first-trimester plasma glucose level appears to be the strongest predictor of congenital heart disease in...
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Which maternal beta-blockers boost SGA risk?
NEW ORLEANS – Exposure to labetalol or atenolol during pregnancy is associated with increased risk of having a small-for-gestational-age baby.
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Prenatal exposure to TNF inhibitors does not increase infections in newborns
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RSV is top cause of severe respiratory disease in preterm infants
Respiratory syncytial virus is the leading viral cause of severe lower respiratory disease in preterm infants.
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Prenatal exposure to hydroxychloroquine cuts risk of neonatal cutaneous lupus
WASHINGTON - Prenatal hydroxychloroquine reduces the risk of cutaneous neonatal lupus by 60% among the infants of women with a systemic autoimmune...