Geo-Racial Epidemiological Estimates of Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase (G6PD) Deficiency Among Newborns in the United States.

States with diverse populations are likely to have higher rates of G6PDd. These discrepancies are further confounded by known risk of severe neonatal hyperbilirubinemia that results with G6PDd and the life-long risk of hemolysis. Combined universal newborn pre-discharge screening for G6PDd and bilirubin could alert and guide a clinician's practices for parental education and closer medical surveillance of vulnerable neonatal time period.