Karan R Kumar, Sonam J Shah, Rawan M Fayyad, Toby M Turla, Laura M O'Sullivan, Beatriz Wallace, Reese H Clark, Daniel K Benjamin, Rachel G Greenberg, Christoph P Hornik
BACKGROUND: We examined the association between hypoglycemia and the occurrence of early onset sepsis (EOS) in premature infants admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). METHODS: We included infants discharged from 358 NICUs between 1997 and 2020 with gestational age <34 weeks, ≥1 culture collected in the first 3 days of life, and ≥1 serum glucose value recorded on the day of or day prior to culture collection. We used multivariable logistic regression and inverse probability weighting (IPW) and constructed models for three definitions of hypoglycemia: American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), Pediatric Endocrine Society, and a definition based on neurodevelopmental studies...
December 26, 2023: Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society