Neonatal Jaundice in Asian, White, and Mixed-Race Infants

Abstract

Diagnoses of neonatal jaundice occurred more often among East Asian and mixed Asian/white infants than among white infants. However, the risk of jaundice requiring extended hospital stay, rehospitalization, phototherapy, or blood transfusion was elevated only for infants of full East Asian parentage.

Neonatal hyperbilirubinemia and G71R mutation of theUGT1A1gene in Turkish patients

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Smartphone-based screening of neonatal jaundice in three populations in low and middle-income countries: a cross-sectional study

“…Even if the vast majority of the participants had parents with comparable Fitzpatrick skin types of III and IV, it is known that skin composition and melanin distribution vary between different ethnicities and could influence the analysis 32. It is further known that newborns of Asian ethnicity have naturally higher bilirubin levels compared with other ethnicities 33–35. In our study, the average TSB levels in Nepal and the Philippines were higher, but this does not explain the overestimation and underestimation of TSB levels, as this shift was seen both in high and low TSB values.…”

Incidence of pre-, peri-, and post-natal birth and developmental problems of children with sensory processing disorder and children with autism spectrum disorder

“…There were no significant differences between the groups on any variables although jaundice approached significance at p  = 0.077. Incidence of jaundice was very high for both the SPD (25.5%) and ASD (30.2%) groups in comparison with reported norms of 7% (Setia et al, 2002) and a previous study which found an incidence of 18.1% of jaundice in children with ASD (Brimacombe et al, 2007). See Table 5.…”