Lack of Evidence for Time or Dose Relationship between Antenatal Magnesium Sulfate and Intestinal Injury in Extremely Preterm Neonates.

Background: Recent studies reported conflicting results on the relationship between antenatal magnesium sulfate (MgSO4) exposure and neonatal intestinal injury. Most studies have not assessed MgSO4 exposure quantitatively and none reported the exposure timing.

Objectives: The aim of this work was to assess whether there is a temporal or dose-dependent relationship between antenatal MgSO4 exposure and intestinal injury in extremely preterm neonates.

Depression and social support in the elderly population: a study of rural South African elders.

Western societies tend to believe that poverty increases depression and that social support is very limited. This study was conducted in a rural South African community. Goals of the study were to determine how the elderly perceived social support and to assess their levels of depression.

Are things really so different? A research finding of satisfaction, illness and depression in rural South African elderly.

This study was conducted as a part of a larger study to create a database to describe elderly respondents residing in a rural South African community. The participants reported on their perceptions of social support, satisfaction, and illness in relationship to depression. There was a correlation between social support and satisfaction (r = .