Table 1.

Positive galactosemia newborn screening and following diagnostic results in Alberta between April 2019 and March 2022.

Characteristic	n = 14	%
Sex
Males	7	50
Females	7	50
Age at report of NBS results	9.2 days (range 4–25 days)
Diagnosis
Confirmed classic galactosemia	1	7
Confirmed clinical variant galactosemia	1	7
Confirmed Duarte variant galactosemia	9	64
False positive	3	21
Age at confirmation of diagnosis	18.5 days (range 5–63 days)