Neonatal Hyperbilirubinemia in a Marginalized Population on the Thai-Myanmar Border: a study protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This study aims to identify risk factors and the neurodevelopmental impact of neonatal hyperbilirubinemia in a limited-resource setting among a refugee and migrant population residing along the Thai-Myanmar border, an area with a high prevalence of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase-deficiency.

Methods

This is an analytic, observational, prospective birth cohort study including all infants of estimated gestational age equal to or greater than 28 weeks from mothers who followed antenatal care in the Shoklo Malaria Research Unit clinics. At birth, a series of clinical exams and laboratory investigations on cord blood will be carried out. Serum bilirubin will be measured in all infants during their first week of life. All the infants of the cohort will be clinically f

SUBMITTER: Thielemans L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5251236 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature