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After screening analyses, multivariable analyses were conducted to identify associations between blindness and peak bilirubin concentration (dichotomized at different levels to create 3 binary variables), and between severe adverse neurodevelopmental outcome at 18 months postterm age and peak bilirubin levels.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results.<\/jats:title><jats:p>Of 128 18-month survivors, 15 had severe visual loss attributable to retinopathy of prematurity, 21 had neurodevelopmental deficit, and 5 were deaf. Visual loss was significantly associated with low-peak serum bilirubin concentration (&amp;lt;9.4 mg\/dL (&amp;lt;160 \u03bcmol\/L) versus \u22659.4 mg\/dL (odds ratio [OR] confidence interval [CI] 4.48 [1.15\u201317.43])), low gestational age (OR [CI] per week 1.95 [1.05\u20133.63]), and longer duration of phototherapy (OR [CI] per 10 hours 1.17 [1.02\u20131.33]). The association of neurodevelopmental impairment with grades 3 and 4 intraventricular hemorrhage was statistically significant (OR 5.39 [1.83\u201315.84]), but with high-peak serum bilirubin concentration \u226511.7 mg\/dL (\u2265200 \u03bcmol\/L), was not significant (OR 2.89 [0.87\u20139.53]).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions.<\/jats:title><jats:p>In these infants, prolonged phototherapy and low-peak serum bilirubin concentrations were associated with severe visual loss attributable to retinopathy of prematurity. 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