Using the Placental Clock to Predict Preterm Birth: Conversation with Dr. Christina Herrera

This week's episode feels, in some ways, like an admission that The easter bunny isn't real, and spoiler, neither is santa...we focus on research that considers ways to predict spontaneous preterm birth. Preterm birth (which is anything before 37 weeks) comes calling for many different reasons, which is one of the challenges of studying it...but today's guest talks about some real breakthroughs she and her colleagues found in terms of using information we've had for decades to better predict preterm birth for a specific set of mothers, and what techniques we are currently using that may not have the data to support their use.A link to Dr. Herrera's paper: Revisiting the placental clock: Early corticotrophin-releasing hormone rise in recurrent preterm birth https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8445461/