Rationale & design of the PROMISES study: a prospective assessment and validation study of salivary progesterone as a test for preterm birth in pregnant women from rural India

• Main Authors: Pankhuri Sharma (Author), Simi Khan (Author), Mohan Ghule (Author), V. B. Shivkumar (Author), Ritu Dargan (Author), Paul T. Seed (Author), Archana Sarkar (Author), Sunil Mehra (Author), Poonam Varma Shivkumar (Author), Rachel M. Tribe (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2018-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background In India, 3.6 million pregnancies are affected by preterm birth annually, with many infants dying or surviving with disability. Currently, there is no simple test available for screening all women at risk of spontaneous PTB in low income setting, although high resource settings r...