Aggressive Phototherapy No Bonus for the Tiniest Babies

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HOUSTON, Oct. 29 -- For infants weighing 1,000 g or less, aggressive phototherapy was no better at reducing death rates or neurodevelopmental impairment than conservative treatment, a randomized trial found.
Aggressive treatment was effective in reducing neurodevelopmental impairment alone, but a subgroup analysis suggested that this benefit may have been offset by a tendency toward an increase in mortality among infants weighing only 501 g to 750 g at birth, said Jon E. Tyson, M.D., M.P.H., of the University of Texas, and colleagues

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