Du Feng, Huaxin Song, M Christina Esperat, Ipuna Black
A Multicomponent Intervention Helped Reduce Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Intake in Economically Disadvantaged Hispanic Children
American journal of health promotion : AJHP
serum procalcitonin pct highly accurate biomarker stratifying risk invasive bacterial infections ibis febrile infants 60 days old however pct unavailable settings explored association leukopenia neutropenia ibis noncritically ill febrile infants 60 days old without pct conducted secondary analysis prospective observational cohort consisting 7407 noncritically ill infants 60 days old temperatures 38c focused risk ibis patients leukopenia white blood cell wbc count 5000 cellsl neutropenia absolute neutrophil count anc 1000 cellsl categorized extremes lower values impact pct associations multiple logistic regression used identify independent predictors ibis final analysis included 6865 infants complete data 45 3098 pct data available 6865 total 111 16 bacteremia without bacterial meningitis 18 03 bacterial meningitis without bacteremia 19 03 bacteremia bacterial meningitis ibi present four 20 20 infants wbc counts 2500 cellsl four 311 13 anc 1000 cellsl multivariable logistic regression analysis including pct wbc count 2500 cellsl significantly associated ibi 1348 95 ci 2924535 however patients leukopenia neutropenia pct 05 ngml ibis leukopenia 2500 cellsl febrile infants 60 days old associated ibis however presence normal pct levels patients leukopenia ibis suggests leukopenia 2500 cellsl risk factor ibis noncritically ill young febrile infants pct unavailable elevated overall low frequency leukopenia cohort warrants caution interpretation future validation required