12 Mar Steroids for Risk of Late Preterm Delivery Help Babies and Reduce Costs
MedicalResearch.com Interview with:
Dr. Gyamfi-Bannerman
Cynthia Gyamfi-Bannerman, MD, MSc
Ellen Jacobson Levine and Eugene Jacobson
Professor of Women’s Health in Obstetrics and Gynecology
Director, Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellowship Program
Co-Director, CUMC Preterm Birth Prevention Center
Columbia University
MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? What are the main findings?
Response: In 2016 our group published the findings of the Antenatal Late Preterm Steroids (ALPS) trial in the NEJM. We found that administration of antenatal corticosteroids to women at high risk for delivery from 34-36 weeks decreased breathing problems in their neonates. This treatment had been traditionally only given at less than 34 weeks.
The current paper is a cost analysis of that trial. We found that the treatment was also cost effective. From a cost perspective treatment was both low cost and highly effective (the options are low cost, low effect/low cost/high effect, high cost/low effect, high cost/high effect).
MedicalResearch.com: What should readers take away from your report?
Response: Steroids help these babies and are not associated with an increase in cost, primarily because these babies needed less postnatal interventions for breathing issues.
MedicalResearch.com: What recommendations do you have for future research as a result of this work?
Response: We are currently working to see if there are long term breathing benefits by assessing the children at age 6.
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MedicalResearch.com Interview with:
Megan A McCrory, PhD, FTOS
Research Associate Professor
Dept of Health Sciences | Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Boston University 02215
MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? What are the main findings?
Response: In 2016 our group published the findings of the Antenatal Late Preterm Steroids (ALPS) trial in the NEJM. We found that administration of antenatal corticosteroids to women at high risk for delivery from 34-36 weeks decreased breathing problems in their neonates. This treatment had been traditionally only given at less than 34 weeks. The current paper is a cost analysis of that trial. We found that the treatment was also cost effective. From a cost perspective treatment was both low cost and highly effective (the options are low cost, low effect/low cost/high effect, high cost/low effect, high cost/high effect).
MedicalResearch.com: What should readers take away from your report?
Response: Steroids help these babies and are not associated with an increase in cost, primarily because these babies needed less postnatal interventions for breathing issues.
MedicalResearch.com: What recommendations do you have for future research as a result of this work?
Response: We are currently working to see if there are long term breathing benefits by assessing the children at age 6.
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Last Updated on March 12, 2019 by Marie Benz MD FAAD