Association between hypothermia and mortality rate of premature infants—Revisited

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The incidence of hypothermia (axillary temperature <35°C) on admission of an infant to a neonatal intensive care unit was retrospectively analyzed in 559 very-low-birth-weight (<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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From the Perinatal Service, Hôpital Sainte-Justine, and the Department of Pediatrics and the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research, University of Montreal.

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