Your new experience awaits. Try the new design now and help us make it even better

ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Med.

Sec. Infectious Diseases: Pathogenesis and Therapy

Volume 12 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fmed.2025.1662406

This article is part of the Research TopicPathogenic microorganisms and biosafetyView all 17 articles

Phase-Specific Mortality Risk of Serum Lactate Thresholds in Very Low Birth Weight Infants with Late-Onset Sepsis: A Retrospective Cohort Study

Provisionally accepted
  • 1Institute of Pediatric Research, Children's Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China
  • 2Suzhou Municipal Hospital, Suzhou, China

The final, formatted version of the article will be published soon.

Conceived and designed the study; led data collection, performed initial statistical analyses, and completed the writing of the manuscript.Zuming Yang: Conducted advanced statistical modeling, provided expertise in statistical methodology. Yang also critically revised the text to ensure statistical accuracy and clarity.Yanhong Li: Supervised the study from conception through final drafting, contributing clinical expertise on sepsis in very low birth weight (VLBW) infants. She reviewed each draft for intellectual rigor and approved the final manuscript for submission.

Keywords: Late-Onset Sepsis, very low birth weight infants, Lactate, threshold effect, mortality Late-onset sepsis, Mortality

Received: 09 Jul 2025; Accepted: 22 Aug 2025.

Copyright: © 2025 Yu, Zuming and Li. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

* Correspondence: Yanhong Li, Institute of Pediatric Research, Children's Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China

Disclaimer: All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article or claim that may be made by its manufacturer is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher.