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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Pediatr.
Sec. Neonatology
Volume 12 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fped.2024.1430364

Short-term outcomes in early term infants (born at 37 or 38 weeks): A retrospective investigation

Provisionally accepted
Tsubasa Kitamura Tsubasa Kitamura 1Kyosuke Tabata Kyosuke Tabata 1,2Yayoi Murano Yayoi Murano 1,2*Daisuke Yoneoka Daisuke Yoneoka 3Tomoyuki Nakazawa Tomoyuki Nakazawa 1Ken Sakamaki Ken Sakamaki 1Hiromichi Shoji Hiromichi Shoji 2
  • 1 Tokyo Metropolitan Toshima Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
  • 2 Juntendo University, Bunkyō, Japan
  • 3 National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID), Tokyo, Tôkyô, Japan

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    The present study was aimed to understand short-term outcome in early term infants. Early term infant is a concept established recent decades and their outcomes are not well-known. This single center study with 4669 infants assessed short-term outcomes. Compared to infants born later than 39 weeks of gestation, early term infants had higher odds ratio for hospitalization, hypoglycemia, and apnea. The analysis performed 37 and 38 weeks of gestation separately revealed higher odds ratio of hospitalization, feeding disorder, hypoglycemia, apnea in 37 weeks of gestation. Taking increasing number of early term infants, health care practitioners should know these outcomes, as they are managed as normal term infants. Moreover, when planning electric cesarian section, as outcomes of 38 weeks is better than 37 weeks of gestation, our study suggest choosing cesarian section at 38 weeks of gestation.

    Keywords: Data curation, methodology, Software, Validation, Writing -review & editing. Hiromichi Shoji: Conceptualization, project administration, supervision, Writing -review & editing. Kyosuke Tabata: Data curation

    Received: 09 May 2024; Accepted: 30 Aug 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Kitamura, Tabata, Murano, Yoneoka, Nakazawa, Sakamaki and Shoji. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Yayoi Murano, Juntendo University, Bunkyō, Japan

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