Lower vitamin D levels are associated with increased risk of early-onset neonatal sepsis in term infants

Journal of Perinatology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 39-45

  Cetinkaya, M ^a   Cekmez, F ^b   Buyukkale, G ^a   Erener Ercan, T ^a   Demir, F ^a   Tunc, T ^b   Aydin, F N ^b   Aydemir, G ^b  

^a Kanuni Sultan Suleyman Training and Research Hospital   (Turkey)

^b GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

25 HYDROXYVITAMIN D; 25-HYDROXYVITAMIN D; VITAMIN D;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOWN REGULATION; ENTEROCOCCAL INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL BLOOD; NEWBORN; NEWBORN ASSESSMENT; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NEWBORN SEPSIS; NONHUMAN; ONSET AGE; PERINATAL PERIOD; RISK ASSESSMENT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; BLOOD; COMPLICATION; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; SEPSIS;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; SEPSIS; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

EID: 84920271930     PISSN: 07438346     EISSN: 14765543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jp.2014.146     Document Type: Article

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