Serum C-Reactive Protein Levels in Healthy Neonates in Different Gestational and Postnatal Ages.

There is paucity of normative data on serum C-reactive protein (CRP) in neonates. In Part I of study, we compared CRP in healthy neonates (from 28°/7 weeks to 416/7 weeks of gestation) between various gestational and postnatal age groups in first week. We planned recruitment of 50 participants each in 'term', 'late preterm' and 'moderate-to-very preterm' groups, equally divided in '24-95 h' and '96-168 h' postnatal age sub-groups.