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The global network antenatal corticosteroids trial: impact on stillbirth

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Title
The global network antenatal corticosteroids trial: impact on stillbirth
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Reproductive Health, June 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12978-016-0174-4
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Robert L. Goldenberg, Vanessa R. Thorsten, Fernando Althabe, Sarah Saleem, Ana Garces, Waldemar A. Carlo, Omrana Pasha, Elwyn Chomba, Shivaprasad Goudar, Fabian Esamai, Nancy F. Krebs, Richard J. Derman, Edward A. Liechty, Archana Patel, Patricia L. Hibberd, Pierre M. Buekens, Marion Koso-Thomas, Menachem Miodovnik, Alan H. Jobe, Dennis D. Wallace, José M. Belizán, Elizabeth M. McClure

Abstract

Antenatal corticosteroids are commonly used to reduce neonatal mortality, but most research to date has been in high-resource settings and few studies have evaluated its impact on stillbirth. In the Antenatal Corticosteroids Trial (ACT), a multi-country trial to assess impact of a multi-faceted intervention including antenatal corticosteroids to reduce neonatal mortality associated with preterm birth, we found an overall increase in 28-day neonatal mortality and stillbirth associated with the intervention. The ACT was a cluster-randomized trial conducted in 102 clusters across 7 research sites in 6 countries (India [2 sites], Pakistan, Zambia, Kenya, Guatemala and Argentina), comparing an intervention to train birth attendants at all levels of the health system to identify women at risk of preterm birth, administer corticosteroids and refer women at risk. Because of inadequate gestational age dating, the <5(th) percentile birth weight was used as a proxy for preterm birth. A pre-specified secondary outcome of the trial was stillbirth. After adjusting for the pre-trial imbalance in stillbirth rates, the ACT intervention was associated with a non-significant increased risk of stillbirth (aRR 1.08, 95 % CI, 0.99-1.17, p-0.073). Additionally, the stillbirth rate was higher in the term births (1.20 95 % CI 1.06-1.37, 0.004) and among those with signs of maceration (RR 1.18 (1.04-1.35), p = 0.013) in the intervention vs. control clusters. Differences in obstetric care favored the control clusters and maternal infection was likely more common in the intervention clusters. In this pragmatic trial, limited data were available to identify the causes of the increase in stillbirths in the intervention clusters. A higher rate of stillbirth in the intervention clusters prior to the trial, differences in obstetric care and an increase in maternal infection are potential explanations for the observed increase in stillbirths in the intervention clusters during the trial. clinicaltrials.gov (NCT01084096).

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Unknown 91 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 18 20%
Student > Postgraduate 8 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 8%
Researcher 5 5%
Student > Bachelor 4 4%
Other 13 14%
Unknown 36 40%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 31 34%
Social Sciences 8 9%
Psychology 4 4%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 3%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 2%
Other 5 5%
Unknown 38 42%
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