CP and Neonatal sepsis: IL-6 concentrations above the cut-off value of 100 ng/L showed statistically highly significant associations with neonatal sepsis in chi-square tests: CP EOS (OR = 6.307, 95% CI: 1.314–29.666, p = 0.011), clinical EOS (OR = 7.093, 95% CI: 4.238–11.873, p < 0.001), CP LOS (OR = 14.37, 95% CI: 6.095–33.881, p < 0.001) and clinical LOS (OR = 33.526, 95% CI: 12.521–89.770, p < 0.001).