Is an episode of suspected preterm labor that subsequently leads to a term delivery benign?

Roberto Romero, Offer Erez, Eli Maymon, Percy Pacora

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Article in American journal of obstetrics and gynecology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

Immunophenotyping and Activation Status of Maternal Lymphocytes to Predict Spontaneous Preterm Birth in Women With Threatened Preterm Labor: A Prospective Observational Study.American journal of reproductive immunology (New York, N.Y. : 1989) · 2024
Observational
Impact of suspected preterm labour in foetal cardiovascular and metabolic programming: a prospective cohort study protocol.BMJ open · 2024
Article
Spontaneous Preterm Birth: a Fetal-Maternal Metabolic Imbalance.Maternal-fetal medicine (Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.) · 2023
Article
Impact of Suspected Preterm Labor during Pregnancy on Cardiometabolic Profile and Neurodevelopment during Childhood: A Prospective Cohort Study Protocol.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
Article
Long-term childhood outcomes for babies born at term who were exposed to antenatal corticosteroids.American journal of obstetrics and gynecology · 2023
Article
Relevance of the antenatal corticosteroids-to-delivery interval in the prevention of neonatal respiratory distress syndrome through the eyes of causal inference: a review and target trial.Archives of gynecology and obstetrics · 2022
Review
Early detection of mental illness for women suffering high-risk pregnancies: an explorative study on self-perceived burden during pregnancy and early postpartum depressive symptoms among Chinese women hospitalized with threatened preterm labour.BMC psychiatry · 2020
Article
Controversies about the Secondary Prevention of Spontaneous Preterm Birth.Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde · 2018
Article
Efficacy of serum procalcitonin to predict spontaneous preterm birth in women with threatened preterm labour: a prospective observational study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

Comment on
Threatened preterm labor is a risk factor for impaired cognitive development in early childhood.2017

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Roberto RomeroPerinatology Research Branch, Program for Perinatal Research and Obstetrics, Division of Intramural Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, and Detroit, MI; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI. Electronic address: rr.ajoged@gmail.com.

Offer ErezPerinatology Research Branch, Program for Perinatal Research and Obstetrics, Division of Intramural Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, and Detroit, MI; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI.

Eli MaymonPerinatology Research Branch, Program for Perinatal Research and Obstetrics, Division of Intramural Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, and Detroit, MI; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI.

Percy PacoraPerinatology Research Branch, Program for Perinatal Research and Obstetrics, Division of Intramural Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, and Detroit, MI; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI.

Funding

The Role Of Subclinical Infection And Cytokines In Preterm ParturitionZIAHD002400 · NICHD · EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT · PI ROMERO, ROBERTO · 2009 to 2025

$254.4M

Intramural NIH HHS ZIA HD002400NICHD NIH HHS HHSN275201300006C

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Obstetric Labor, PrematurePremature BirthFemaleHumansInfant, NewbornPregnancy

Identifiers

PMID28148450

DOI10.1016/j.ajog.2016.12.030

PMCPMC5575861

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