Elevated Endogenous Erythropoietin Concentrations Are Associated with Increased Risk of Brain Damage in Extremely Preterm Neonates

• Steven J. Korzeniewski ,

  * E-mail: sKorzeni@med.wayne.edu

  Affiliations Perinatology Research Branch, NICHD/NIH/DHHS, Bethesda, Maryland, and Detroit, MI, United States of America, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States of America

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• Elizabeth Allred,

  Affiliation Neurology Departments, Boston Children’s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America

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• J. Wells Logan,

  Affiliation Department of Neonatology, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH, United States of America

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• Raina N. Fichorova,

  Affiliation Departments of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America

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• Stephen Engelke,

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine, Greenville, NC, United States of America

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• Karl C. K. Kuban,

  Affiliation Departments of Pediatrics, Boston Medical Center and Boston University, Boston, MA, United States of America

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• T. Michael O’Shea,

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, United States of America

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• Nigel Paneth,

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics & Human Development, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States of America

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• Mari Holm,

  Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, Children's and Women's Health, Faculty of Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States of America

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• Olaf Dammann,

  Affiliations Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States of America, Neuroepidemiology Unit, Hannover School of Medicine, Hannover, Germany

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• Alan Leviton,

  Affiliation Neurology Departments, Boston Children’s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America

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• ELGAN study investigators