Nitroglycerin during premature labour improves babies’ health

From Queen's University, Toronto ,Canada a study shows that giving nitroglycerin to women who enter labour early results in significant improvement to their babies’ health. The improvement is most marked in babies who are born very prematurely (at 24 to 28 weeks). A five-year, randomized controlled trial involved 153 women who were recruited at the time they went into pre-term labour. The study shows that using nitroglycerin patches for pregnant women helps to prolong pregnancy and – most importantly – improves babies’ outcome, with fewer side effects than experienced through the use of other drugs.