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Data on obstetrics described by researchers at University of Texas

Published in Women's Health Weekly, August 13th, 2009

In this recent report, researchers in the United States conducted a study "To estimate the effect of single and recurrent doses of antenatal corticosteroids on fetal bone metabolism. This was a secondary analysis of a cohort of pregnant women from a previously reported randomized, placebo-controlled, multicenter trial of women at risk for preterm delivery who received weekly courses of betamethasone (active) or placebo after an initial course of corticosteroids."

"Umbilical cord serum levels of carboxy-terminal carboxy-terminal propeptide of type I procollagen and cross-linked carboxy-terminal telopeptide of type I procollagen were measured to assess the rate of fetal...

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