Does gender affect neonatal hyperbilirubinemia in low-birth-weight infants?

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 171-174

  Tioseco, Jennifer A ^a   Aly, Hany ^b   Milner, Josh ^c   Patel, Kantilal ^a   El Mohandes, Ayman A E ^b  

^a CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilirubin; Gender; Low birth weight; Regression analysis

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN;

APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BIRTH WEIGHT; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEWBORN; NEWBORN JAUNDICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

APGAR SCORE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAUNDICE, NEONATAL; MALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 19444386310     PISSN: 15297535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PCC.0000154961.37833.79     Document Type: Article

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