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Let us first praise famous men (and women!)
Specifically, Ben Nemery and his group, long renowned for their epidemiological and other insights. They have recently shown that the successive population interventions to restrict smoking have led to consistent reductions in preterm delivery (BMJ 2013;346: f441). This will likely lead to substantial lifelong improvements in lung function (see Thorax passim). Pity Ben did not publish in Thorax – he could then have had the whole manuscript in the Journal, not the ‘one blink and you've missed it’ form favoured by our sister periodical, presumably in the belief that their entire readership has an attention span measured in nanoseconds.
Stemming the Tide
Another cause of long-term respiratory morbidity is extreme preterm birth, which is difficult to prevent and for which treatments are supportive and non-specific. The placenta and umbilical cord are generally discarded after preterm birth (or eaten by some animal species), but Pierro et al derived two …
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