“…In multiple trials, the early work by Liggins and Howie [82] has now been confirmed many times [7,11,45,63] proving that these reduce the frequency of respiratory distress syndrome, neonatal morbidity, and mortality in preterm gestation [17,32,82,113,135] . There has been ongoing discussion about the dose and type of steroid, the treatment interval, and whether repeat doses of GC are beneficial [20,22,36,58,59,65,87,105,136,152] .…”