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Despite their benefits, use of these therapies varies largely by physician preferences in part because of the concern for SIP.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>METHODS:<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>This was a cohort study of 15\u2009751 ELBW infants in the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Neonatal Research Network from 1999 to 2010 who survived beyond 12 hours after birth. The risk of SIP was compared between groups of infants with and without exposure to prophylactic indomethacin and early feeding in unadjusted analyses and in analyses adjusted for center and for risks of SIP.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>RESULTS:<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Among infants exposed to prophylactic indomethacin, the risk of SIP did not differ between the indomethacin\/early-feeding group compared with the indomethacin\/no-early-feeding group (adjusted relative risk [RR] 0.74, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.49\u20131.11). The risk of SIP was lower in the indomethacin\/early-feeding group compared with the no indomethacin\/no-early-feeding group (adjusted RR 0.58, 95% CI 0.37\u20130.90, P = .0159). Among infants not exposed to indomethacin, early feeding was associated with a lower risk of SIP compared with the no early feeding group (adjusted RR 0.53, 95% CI 0.36\u20130.777, P = .0011).<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>CONCLUSIONS:<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>The combined or individual use of prophylactic indomethacin and early feeding was not associated with an increased risk of SIP in ELBW infants.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1542\/peds.2014-0183","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,10,28]],"date-time":"2014-10-28T03:47:28Z","timestamp":1414468048000},"page":"e1369-e1377","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":32,"title":["Prophylactic Indomethacin and Intestinal Perforation in Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants"],"prefix":"10.1542","volume":"134","author":[{"given":"John","family":"Kelleher","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatrics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama;"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ariel A.","family":"Salas","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatrics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama;"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ramachandra","family":"Bhat","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatrics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama;"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Namasivayam","family":"Ambalavanan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatrics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama;"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Shampa","family":"Saha","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Social, Statistical and Environmental Sciences Unit, RTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina;"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Barbara J.","family":"Stoll","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, and Children\u2019s Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia;"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Edward F.","family":"Bell","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatrics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa;"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Michele C.","family":"Walsh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland;"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Abbot R.","family":"Laptook","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatrics, Rainbow Babies & Children\u2019s Hospital, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio;"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Pablo J.","family":"S\u00e1nchez","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatrics, Women & Infants\u2019 Hospital, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island;"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Seetha","family":"Shankaran","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Krisa P.","family":"VanMeurs","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatrics, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan;"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ellen C.","family":"Hale","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatrics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama;"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Nancy S.","family":"Newman","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland;"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"M. 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