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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Ahmed Elsaiey, MBBCH [2]

Overview

Risk Factors

Common risk factors

  • Common risk factors for neonatal jaundice include the following:[1][2]
Maternal risk factors Neonatal risk factors
  • Asian race
  • Usage of oxytocin during labor
  • Exclusive breastfeeding
  • Herbal drug during pregnancy
  • Prolonged labor
  • Family history of siblings received phototherapy
  • Developing jaundice in the first 24 hours of delivery is an indicator of severe hyperbilirubinemia
  • ABO blood group incompatibility
  • Preterm neonates
  • Cephalohematoma 

Less common risk factors

  • Less common risk factors for neonatal jaundice include the following:

References

  1. Huang MJ, Kua KE, Teng HC, Tang KS, Weng HW, Huang CS (2004). "Risk factors for severe hyperbilirubinemia in neonates". Pediatr Res. 56 (5): 682–9. doi:10.1203/01.PDR.0000141846.37253.AF. PMID 15319464.
  2. Olusanya BO, Osibanjo FB, Slusher TM (2015). "Risk factors for severe neonatal hyperbilirubinemia in low and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis". PLoS One. 10 (2): e0117229. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0117229. PMC 4326461. PMID 25675342.

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