Extremely Preterm Birth

Among preterm-born children, treatment with fluticasone propionate for 12 weeks led to a modest improvement in lung function, researchers reported at the European Respiratory Society International Congress.

The frequency of active treatment in newborns born between 22 and 25 weeks’ gestation increased over 7 years in the United States, according to a serial cross-sectional analysis published in JAMA.

Extremely preterm infants with prolonged exposure to opioids and benzodiazepines experienced an increased risk for worse neurodevelopmental outcomes at 2 years’ corrected age, according to results from a cohort study.

People who were born preterm had higher rates of psychotropic drug prescriptions during adolescence and young adulthood than those born at term, according to results of a cohort study published in JAMA Network Open.