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ArticlePediatric neurology2016

Neonatal Magnesium Levels Between 24 and 48 Hours of Life and Outcomes for Epilepsy and Motor Impairment in Premature Infants.

Betsy Ostrander, Tyler Bardsley, Ernest Kent Korgenski, Tom Greene, Joshua L Bonkowsky

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Article in Pediatric neurology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Betsy OstranderDivision of Pediatric Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Tyler BardsleyDepartment of Biostatistics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Ernest Kent KorgenskiIntermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Tom GreeneDepartment of Biostatistics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Joshua L BonkowskyDivision of Pediatric Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah. Electronic address: joshua.bonkowsky@hsc.utah.edu.
University of Utah · USIntermountain Healthcare · US

Funding

University of Utah Center for Clinical and Translational ScienceUL1TR001067 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI DERE, WILLARD H., HESS, RACHEL · 2013 to 2017
$19.8M
University of Utah Center for Clinical and Translational Science-UL1UL1TR000105 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI MCCLAIN, DONALD A. · 2012 to 2013
$5.1M
Trans-Cellular Activation of Transcription to Analyze Dopaminergic Axon ReorganizDP2MH100008 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI BONKOWSKY, JOSH LEITCH · 2012 to 2012
$2.2M
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR000105NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001067NIMH NIH HHS DP2 MH100008
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveElevated rates of epilepsy and motor impairments including cerebral palsy are observed in children who were born prematurely. Maternal antenatal magnesium supplementation has been associated with decreased rates of cerebral palsy in infants born prematurely. Our objective was to determine whether the neonatal serum magnesium level between 24 and 48 hours after birth is associated with better long-term neurodevelopmental outcomes (epilepsy, motor impairment) in premature infants.

methodsWe performed a retrospective cohort analysis in infants born less than 37-weeks gestation over a ten-year period. Prenatal, perinatal, and postnatal clinical and demographic information was collected. Crude and adjusted odds ratios were estimated under generalized linear models with generalized estimating equations to examine the association of the neonatal serum magnesium level between 24 and 48 hours after birth with the risk of epilepsy and/or motor impairment (spasticity; hypotonia; cerebral palsy).

resultsThe final cohort included 5461 infants born less than 37-weeks gestation from 2002 to 2011. The adjusted relative risk ratio for the combined outcomes of epilepsy and/or motor impairment, controlling for gestational age, current age, maternal magnesium supplementation, maternal steroid administration, five-minute Apgar score, neonatal infection, need for vasopressor use, and birth weight and with serum magnesium level as the main independent variable, was 0.85 (P = 0.24). Stratified analyses by gestational age less than 32 or greater than 32 weeks were not significantly associated with adverse neurodevelopmental outcome (risk ratio = 0.79 and 1.2, P = 0.12 and 0.49, respectively). A multivariate analysis for the risk of motor impairment alone had a risk ratio of 0.94 (P = 0.72).

conclusionThis study demostrates that the neonatal magnesium level between 24 and 48 hours of life in premature infants is not significantly associated with the risk for developing epilepsy or motor impairment.

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Child DevelopmentEpilepsyFemaleHumansInfant, Low Birth WeightInfant, NewbornInfant, PrematureKaplan-Meier EstimateLinear ModelsMagnesiumMaleMotor DisordersMultivariate AnalysisOdds RatioRetrospective StudiesRiskMagnesiummagnesiumneonateneurologicalneuroprotectionprematurity

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PMCPMC4912928
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