– five of the 17 infants with suspected NEC subsequently developed NEC stage IIa. Of the remaining 12 patients suspected of NEC, 7 had sepsis and the rest alternative gastrointestinal diagnoses– in the first urine sample, median urinary I-FABP:Cr ratio was significantly higher in neonates who ultimately developed NEC or intestinal necrosis (3.9 pg/nmol, range 2.3-6.6) than in those without NEC (1.2 pg/nmol, range 0.1–1.8) (p = 0.001)– no infant without either NEC or intestinal necrosis was found to have an I-FABP:Cr ratio >2 pg/nmol. Here, FABP2 is linked to Sepsis.