[Antepartal and intrapartal betamimetic long-time-therapy - effects on blood sugar in premature infants (author's transl)].

The glucose oxidase method was used to measure blood sugar concentrations of 61 newborns over their first 24 hours of life in an effort to study the effects of long-time antepartal and intrapartal application of betamimetics to the mothers upon the blood sugar levels of premature infants. Betamimetically affected premature infants, different from all expectation, exhibited a trend towards higher blood glucose values in the first hours from birth. However, no difference was any longer recordable between the treated group and the controls, after twelve hours had elapsed.