Background: Blood urea is considered a marker of amino acid utilization in preterm infants on routine parenteral nutrition. However, the association between blood urea and intravenous amino acid intake remains debated. Aims: To evaluate the association between blood urea and both nutrition and clinical data, in a large cohort of preterm infants. Methods: Consecutively admitted preterm infants with a gestational age of less than 32 weeks and a birth weight lower than 1250 g on routine parenteral nutrition from the first hour of life were studied. Clinical and nutrition data collected hourly during the hospitalization were used in multiple linear regression analysis. Results: We studied 674 patients and 1863 blood urea determinations. Blood urea concentration was positively associated with blood creatinine concentration, intravenous amino acid intake, patent ductus arteriosus and respiratory distress syndrome, and negatively associated with intravenous non-protein energy intakes, daily weight change, gestational age, being small for gestational age, antenatal steroids therapy and reverse flow in the umbilical artery (p < 0.001; R = 0.7). Conclusions: From a nutrition perspective, in our large cohort of small preterm infants blood urea was positively correlated with intravenous amino acid intake and negatively correlated with intravenous non-protein energy intake. This is in line with current knowledge in human physiology and suggest that a reduction of intravenous amino acid intake based on blood urea concentrations was justified.

Blood urea in preterm infants on routine parenteral nutrition: A multiple linear regression analysis / Giretti, I.; Correani, A.; Antognoli, L.; Monachesi, C.; Marchionni, P.; Biagetti, C.; Bellagamba, M. P.; Cogo, P.; D'Ascenzo, R.; Burattini, I.; Carnielli, V. P.. - In: CLINICAL NUTRITION. - ISSN 0261-5614. - STAMPA. - 40:1(2021), pp. 153-156. [10.1016/j.clnu.2020.04.039]

Blood urea in preterm infants on routine parenteral nutrition: A multiple linear regression analysis

Giretti I.;Correani A.;Antognoli L.;Monachesi C.;Biagetti C.;D'Ascenzo R.;Burattini I.;Carnielli V. P.
2021-01-01

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Background: Blood urea is considered a marker of amino acid utilization in preterm infants on routine parenteral nutrition. However, the association between blood urea and intravenous amino acid intake remains debated. Aims: To evaluate the association between blood urea and both nutrition and clinical data, in a large cohort of preterm infants. Methods: Consecutively admitted preterm infants with a gestational age of less than 32 weeks and a birth weight lower than 1250 g on routine parenteral nutrition from the first hour of life were studied. Clinical and nutrition data collected hourly during the hospitalization were used in multiple linear regression analysis. Results: We studied 674 patients and 1863 blood urea determinations. Blood urea concentration was positively associated with blood creatinine concentration, intravenous amino acid intake, patent ductus arteriosus and respiratory distress syndrome, and negatively associated with intravenous non-protein energy intakes, daily weight change, gestational age, being small for gestational age, antenatal steroids therapy and reverse flow in the umbilical artery (p < 0.001; R = 0.7). Conclusions: From a nutrition perspective, in our large cohort of small preterm infants blood urea was positively correlated with intravenous amino acid intake and negatively correlated with intravenous non-protein energy intake. This is in line with current knowledge in human physiology and suggest that a reduction of intravenous amino acid intake based on blood urea concentrations was justified.
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