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Risk factors for severe hyperbilirubinemia in neonates.
Pediatric research - 1 Nov 2004
Huang May-Jen, Kua Ka-Em, Teng Hsiu-Chen, Tang Kung-Sheng, Weng Hui-Wen, Huang Ching-Shan
Abstract excerpt
The incidence of severe neonatal hyperbilirubinemia is higher in Asians than in whites. A case-control study was designed to investigate the effects of eight known risk factors [breast feeding, ABO incompatibility, premature birth, infection, cephalohematoma, asphyxia, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency, and variant UDP-glucuronosyltransferase 1A1 (UGT1A1) gene] and a suspicious analog [organic...
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