Friday 5 September 2014

Impact of Steroids on Intelligence and Hearing in Preterm Infants Studied

Previous research has speculated that steroids called glucocorticoids have a long-term impact on the development of the nervous system and increase the incidence of cerebral palsy in preterm infants. The existing studies concerning the role of dexamethasone in preterm infants are insufficiently reliable owing to short follow-up periods and small sample sizes in clinical studies, or the absence of randomized controlled trials. Ruolin Zhang and co-workers from the ...

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