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Melatonin for women in pregnancy for neuroprotection of the fetus

Overview of attention for article published in Cochrane database of systematic reviews, March 2016
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Title
Melatonin for women in pregnancy for neuroprotection of the fetus
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Cochrane database of systematic reviews, March 2016
DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd010527.pub2
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Dominic Wilkinson, Emily Shepherd, Euan M Wallace

Abstract

Melatonin is an antioxidant with anti-inflammatory and anti-apoptotic effects. Animal studies have supported a fetal neuroprotective role for melatonin when administered maternally. It is important to assess whether melatonin, given to the mother, can reduce the risk of neurosensory disabilities (including cerebral palsy) and death, associated with fetal brain injury, for the preterm or term compromised fetus. To assess the effects of melatonin when used for neuroprotection of the fetus. We searched the Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth Group's Trials Register (31 January 2016). We planned to include randomised controlled trials and quasi-randomised controlled trials comparing melatonin given to women in pregnancy (regardless of the route, timing, dose and duration of administration) for fetal neuroprotection with placebo, no treatment, or with an alternative agent aimed at providing fetal neuroprotection. We also planned to include comparisons of different regimens for administration of melatonin. Two review authors planned to independently assess trial eligibility, trial quality and extract the data. We found no randomised trials for inclusion in this review. One study is ongoing. As we did not identify any randomised trials for inclusion in this review, we are unable to comment on implications for practice at this stage.Although evidence from animals studies has supported a fetal neuroprotective role for melatonin when administered to the mother during pregnancy, no trials assessing melatonin for fetal neuroprotection in pregnant women have been completed to date. However, there is currently one ongoing randomised controlled trial (with an estimated enrolment target of 60 pregnant women) which examines the dose of melatonin, administered to women at risk of imminent very preterm birth (less than 28 weeks' gestation) required to reduce brain damage in the white matter of the babies that were born very preterm.Further high-quality research is needed and research efforts should directed towards trials comparing melatonin with either no intervention (no treatment or placebo), or with alternative agents aimed at providing fetal neuroprotection (such as magnesium sulphate for the very preterm infant). Such trials should evaluate maternal and infant short- and longer-term outcomes (including neurosensory disabilities such as cerebral palsy), and consider the costs of care.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
South Africa 1 <1%
Unknown 248 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 40 16%
Student > Bachelor 31 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 24 10%
Researcher 22 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 10 4%
Other 39 16%
Unknown 83 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 67 27%
Nursing and Health Professions 33 13%
Neuroscience 10 4%
Psychology 9 4%
Social Sciences 8 3%
Other 30 12%
Unknown 92 37%
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