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In this study, we gathered data from 21,840 newborn patients admitted for various medical conditions at the Children\u2019s Hospital of Chongqing Medical University from January 2017 and December 2022. Liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS\/MS), gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS\/MS), and genetic analysis were used to elucidate the disease spectrum, incidence rate, and genetic characteristics of IEMs in hospitalized newborns. The results revealed that the incidence of IEMs in hospitalized newborns was 1\/377 (58\/21,840), with a higher incidence in full-term infants (1\/428) than in premature infants (1\/3,120). Among the diagnosed genetic metabolic diseases, organic acid metabolism disorders (1\/662), amino acid metabolism disorders (1\/950), and fatty acid oxidation disorders (1\/10,920) were the most prevalent. Methylmalonic acidemia (MMA), especially the isolated form, emerged as the most common IEM, while neonatal intrahepatic cholestasis caused by citrin deficiency (NICCD) and ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency (OTCD) were prevalent in premature infants. Of the 58 confirmed cases of IEMs, 72 variants were identified, of which 31.94% (23\/72) had not been reported previously. 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