Health term-born girls had higher levels of urine neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin than boys during the first postnatal days.

UNLABELLED: Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) is one of the most extensively examined biological markers for early prediction of acute kidney injury, but there is a lack of data on normal NGAL values in healthy term-born infants. This encouraged us to established serum and urine levels using samples collected from 38 girls and 50 boys, born at a median age of 39 weeks, during the first 48 hours after birth. CONCLUSION: Our findings showed that urine NGAL, but not serum levels, were significantly higher in girls than in boys.