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Temperature instability.
Wang et al. (2004) found
near-term infants were 10% more likely than full-term new-
borns to have temperature instability. Pulver et al. (2010)
found that 31% of the infants studied had hypothermia
requiring an isolette, causing 82% of these infants to have
a prolonged hospital stay. Jain and Cheng (2006) found
that late-preterm infants also had a higher risk of being
readmitted to the hospital for hypothermia than term
infants (2.5% vs. 0.2%). Late-preterm infants have an
immature epidermal barrier and a higher ratio of surface
area to birth weight than term infants, making this popula-
tion more likely to have cold stress (Mally et al., 2010).
Late-preterm infants also have less white adipose tissue for
insulation and less accumulation of brown adipose tissue,
making the infants less able to generate heat from brown
adipose tissue as term infants do for thermal regulation
(Engle et al., 2007).
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