PPB Major Milestones and Advances 2000-2004
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• 2000 (March) Consensus Development Conference: Antenatal Corticosteroids Revisited: Repeat Courses
• 2000 (June) From Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia to Chronic Lung Disease Workshop
• 2000 (July) Maternal-Fetal Surgery Conference
• 2000 (September) Nausea and Vomiting During Pregnancy Workshop
• 2000 (November) SIDS Pathogenesis in the New Millennium
• 2000 Elevated mid-trimester vaginal fetal FFN levels predict spontaneous preterm birth; AJOG 183:469,2000⁺
• 2000 Treatment of asymptomatic trichomoniasis increases risk of preterm birth; NEJM 345:487, 2001⁺
• 2000 Thrombin initiates uterine contractions in pregnancies complicated by hemorrhage; AJOG 183: 674-81 and 183: 799-804⁺
• 2001 (March) Setting a Research Agenda for Stillbirth Workshop
• 2001 (May) Role of Genetics in the Health Disparity of Preterm Birth and Low Birth Weight Workshop
• 2001 (August) Prenatal Alcohol Exposure and Risk for Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes and SIDS Workshop
• 2001 A novel X chromosome-linked genetic cause of recurrent miscarriage; AJOG 185:563-68⁺
• 2001 Maternal protein restriction in pregnancy programs subsequent adult hypertension; Pediatr Res 49:1-8⁺
• 2001 Mid-trimester sonographic cervical length predicts preterm birth; JAMA 286:1340-1348⁺
• 2002 (February) Seminars in Perinatology: Stillbirth > 20 Weeks' Gestation
• 2002 (June) Defining the Content of Follow Up Care Workshop
• 2002 (December) Pregnancy and Perinatology Branch Planning Workshop
• 2002 (December) Fetal and Neonatal Growth and Development Workshop
• 2002 Temporal response of fetal erythropoietin to hemorrhage; J Soc Gynecol Invest 9:75-79⁺
• 2002 Home uterine activity monitors not useful for predicting preterm birth; NEJM 346:250-255⁺
• 2002 Adaptation of ovine pancreatic insulin secretion to chronic hypoglycemia—implications for adult onset diabetes; J Physiol 15:95-105⁺
• 2002 Prenatal cocaine exposure affects behavior at one month of age and fetal growth deceleration; Pediatrics 110:1182-92; and Obstet Gynecol 100: 916-24⁺
• 2002 Varicella in pregnancy increases risk of pneumonia; J Inf Dis 185:422-427⁺
• 2002 Risk factors for SIDS among Northern Plains Indians; JAMA 288:2717-2723⁺
• 2002 Changes in pathogens causing early onset sepsis in very low birth weight infants; NEJM 347:240-7⁺
• 2002 Causes of late onset sepsis in very low birth weight neonates; Pediatrics 110:285-91⁺
• 2002 Mechanisms of how estrogen protects from arteriosclerosis; Endocr Rev 21: 655-686⁺
• 2003 (April) Investigation of Fetal Origins of Adult Health in Twin Cohorts Workshop
• 2003 (May) Role of Genomic Imprinting, Confined Placental Mosaicism, and Uniparental Disomy in Fetal Growth and Beyond Workshop
• 2003 (June) First Steering Committee Meeting of the Community Child Health Research Network
• 2003 (June) Seminars in Perinatology: Highlights from the NICHD's Maternal-Fetal Medicine Units Network
• 2003 (July) From Bench to Bedside: Preventing Bilirubin-Induced Brain Injury (BIBI) in the Newborn and Kernicterus in the 21st Century Workshop
• 2003 Progesterone prevents recurrent preterm birth; NEJM 348:2379-85⁺
• 2003 Mechanism of pulmonary hypertension in newborns; Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 285:H204-211⁺
• 2003 Maternal autoantibodies linked to preeclampsia; J Soc Gynecol Invest 10:82-3⁺
• 2003 American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) Committee Opinion 291: Progesterone and Preterm Birth; Obstet Gynecol 102:1115-6⁺
• 2003 Antibiotics not useful to prevent preterm birth in FFN-positive women; Obstet Gynecol 101:847-855⁺
• 2003 Asthma severity predicts morbidity in pregnancy; J All Clin Immunol 112: 283-288⁺
• 2003 (November) First Steering Committee Meeting of the Stillbirth Collaborative Research Network
• 2003 (December) First Steering Committee Meeting of the Prenatal Alcohol in SIDS and Stillbirth Network
• 2004 Optimal treatment of moderate asthma in pregnancy; AJOG in press⁺
• 2004 (January) NICHD-American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Research and Training in Neonatology Workshop
• 2004 (January) NICHD-USAID Periconceptual Nutrition and Pregnancy Outcome Workshop
• 2004 (January) PPB Strategic Plan distributed to NACHHD Council
• 2004 (January) Fetal growth restriction RFA presented to Council⁺

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