Gestational age, low birth weight, pneumonia, history of ischemia and hypoxia, history of intrauterine infection, leukocytes, lymphocytes, erythrocytes, platelets, CRP, and blood glucose were used as independent variables, and whether the neonates with NEC underwent surgical intervention was used as the dependent variable for the multivariate logistic regression analysis. Here, CRP is linked to necrotizing enterocolitis.