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. 1991 Jan;164(1 Pt 1):111-2.
doi: 10.1016/0002-9378(91)90638-8.

Association between hypothermia and mortality rate of premature infants--revisited

J Hazan  1 , U Maag, P Chessex
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Association between hypothermia and mortality rate of premature infants--revisited

J Hazan et al. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 1991 Jan.

Abstract

The incidence of hypothermia (axillary temperature less than 35 degrees C) on admission of an infant to a neonatal intensive care unit was retrospectively analyzed in 559 very-low-birth-weight (less than 1500 gm) newborn infants. The smaller infants were at greater risk of hypothermia. Only in the larger neonates was mortality related to hypothermia, which suggests that this known association bears little cause-effect relationship.

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  • Hypothermia revisited.
    Kaplan M, Eidelman AI. Kaplan M, et al. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 1992 Feb;166(2):768-9. doi: 10.1016/0002-9378(92)91717-o. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 1992. PMID: 1590862 No abstract available.

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