Bilirubin-binding Capacity in Low Birthweight Premature Infants: In Reply

Thank you, Dr McDonagh, for your careful review of our study. The discrepancies between Fig 1 and Table 3 had textual description that was regrettably cut during our internal review cycle which, hopefully, I can reconcile now. 1. 1. Figure 1 has 138 data points, of which 52 (38%), 45 (33%), and 41 (30%) were in the high-risk (H), moderate-risk (M), and low-risk (L) categories at the first 24 hours. 2. Of 152 patients, 2 withdrew, 12 had no unbound bilirubin (UB), 9 had no Scatchard plot data, and 24 had poor primary site …