Serum Bilirubin Levels and Developmental Outcome

Abstract

The neurodevlopmental risks associated with neonatal total serum bilirubin levels of 25 mg/dL or higher in 140 affected infants were compared with 419 randomly selected controls from a cohort of term-infants born 1995-1998 in Kaiser Permanente hospitals in northern California.

Keywords

• serum bilirubin
• hyperbilirubinemia
• phototherapy