Postnatal corticosteroid use for prevention or treatment of bronchopulmonary dysplasia in England and Wales 2012-2019: a retrospective population cohort study

Objective
Describe the population of babies who do and do not receive postnatal corticosteroids for prevention or treatment of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD).

Design
Retrospective cohort study using data held in the National Neonatal Research Database.

Setting
National Health Service neonatal units in England and Wales.

Patients
Babies born less than 32 weeks gestation and admitted to neonatal units from 1 January 2012 to 31 December 2019.

Main outcomes
Proportion of babies given postnatal corticosteroid; type of corticosteroid; age at initiation and duration, trends over time.

Secondary outcomes
Survival to discharge, treatment for retinopathy of prematurity, BPD, brain injury, severe necrotising enterocolitis, gastrointestinal perforation.

Results
8% (4713/62019) of babies born

Leggi
Novembre 2022

Discrepancies of recurrent birth intervals using longitudinal data analysis in Ethiopia: interim EDHS 2019

Objective
This study aimed to determine whether the birth interval changes differently over time among women in Ethiopia and whether the change depends on women, children and household characteristics measured at the last visit.

Methods
Longitudinal study design was implemented based on the data obtained from the 2019 Ethiopia Mini Demographic and Health Survey consisting of a total of 3630 mothers. Generalised estimating equation and generalised linear mixed model were employed to estimate the effect of the determinants given the correlation between birth intervals within a mother is under consideration.

Results
The majority of women were Muslims (48.1%) and come from rural areas (82.2%). About 77.2% of women at first birth were below 20 years old. A significant correlation (p value

Leggi
Novembre 2022