Urinary Intestinal Fatty Acid-Binding Protein Can Distinguish Necrotizing Enterocolitis from Sepsis in Early Stage of the Disease

Table 1

Patients’ demographics. The data are expressed as number of cases (%) or mean ± standard deviation.

	NEC	Sepsis	Control
Number of infants	24	16	12
NEC stage II	11 (45.8%)	—	—
NEC stage III	13 (54.2%)	—	—
Sex, female	7 (29.2%)	6 (37.5%)	6 (50.0%)
Gestational age (weeks)	35.5 ± 3.3	35.9 ± 4.2	37.8 ± 2.7
Birth weight (kg)	2.4 ± 0.9	2.7 ± 0.9	3.1 ± 0.9
Delivery by cesarean section	14 (58.3%)	5 (31.3%)	6 (50.0%)
Birth asphyxia	10 (41.7%)	5 (31.3%)	2 (16.7%)
Congenital heart disease	4 (16.7%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)
Postnatal age at disease evaluation (day)	18.3 ± 30.5	19.9 ± 31.8	13.6 ± 11.4