Sentences with phrase «early newborn screening tests»

When your baby's born, one of the early newborn screening tests will be for something called phenylketonuria, or PKU.

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Also, a newborn screening blood test is done before the baby leaves the hospital to look for PKU (phenylketonuria), congenital hypothyroidism, and other diseases that need to be diagnosed early in infancy to ensure successful treatment.

A study matching newborn glucose concentration screening results with fourth - grade achievement test scores suggests that early transient newborn hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) was associated with lower test scores at age 10, according to an article published online by JAMA Pediatrics.