A simple saliva sample to determine whether the pregnant womans risk of having a premature baby. The rapid test was (United Kingdom) by British researchers at the University College and Kings College London and the study of 92 women in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology published developed.
The key to predicting a progesterone early birth. The hormone has anti-inflammatory properties that is, without relief bacterial infections, one of the possible causes of preterm birth. Scientists have low progesterone in the saliva of women in the labor market before 34 Gestation found.
According to the authors of the tests, such as saliva, "easy to without a needle or blood together," said the coordinator of the research group Lucilla Poston, late in the future, time for life-saving therapies, treatments with steroids to. Better development of the lungs of premature infants
Every year in Italy about 5,000 children are born prematurely, 7% of the total number of births. After the completion of the World Health Organization, it is premature babies before 37 Born week.
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