Infant Mortality and Birth Weight
Economic Crises, Maternal and Infant Mortality, Low Birth Weight and Enrollment Rates: Evidence from Argentina’s Downturns
... maternal mortality (per 10,000 live births), infant mortality (children up to one year old per 1,000 live births) and low birth weight (children weighing less than 2,500 grams at ...
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Racial disparities in infant mortality: what has birth weight got to do with it and how large is it?
... the birth weight density as the sum of two Gaussian distributions and the subpopulation specific mortality curves as a 2 nd degree polynomial of Z-scored birth weight standardized with ...
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Maternal Risks for Very Low Birth Weight Infant Mortality
... After controlling for other factors known to influence either birth weight or infant mortality, mater- nal cocaine use (odds ratio [ORI 5.43), prior infant death (OR = 27.14), and planne[r] ...
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Extremely Low Birth Weight and Infant Mortality Rates in the United States
... the birth weight – speci fi c neonatal and infant mortality rates, data were analyzed by the fol- lowing weight subgroups used in the database: $ 3500 g, 3000 to 3499 g, 2500 to 2999 g, ...
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Postdischarge Infant Mortality Among Very Low Birth Weight Infants: A Population-Based Study
... national birth registry, and data from any missing infants are requested from the birth ...ditional infant deaths that occurred after discharge but before 1 year of age were provided by the Ministry ...
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Infant Mortality Among Moderately Low Birth Weight Infants in Alabama, 1980 to 1983
... A previous study of postneonatal deaths among normal birth weight infants in Alabama indicated that rural residence increased the risk of postneonatal death, the magnitude of the excess [r] ...
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Low Birth Weight, Vital Records, and Infant Mortality
... Wilson AL, Fenton LI, Munson DP: State reporting of live births of newborns weighing less than 500 grams: Impact on neonatal mortality rates. Kleinman JC: Underreporting of infant deaths[r] ...
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The Correlation between Maternal Exposure to Air Pollution and the Risk of Orofacial Clefts in Infants: a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
... Studies have examined the adverse effects of ambient air pollutants on the fetus and newborn [6,7]. Modern pollution resulting from vehicle traffic and industrial production yields numerous ambient pollutants. Maternal ...
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Infant Mortality Among Singletons and Twins in the United States During 2 Decades: Effects of Maternal Age
... of infant mortality among multiple births has not been explored ade- ...on infant mortality among twins would be infor- mative for a number of ...and infant mortality could ...
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Racial Bias in Child Protection? A Comparison of Competing Explanations Using National Data
... low birth weight, prematurity) would lend support to the risk ...suppress infant mortality, low birth weight, and ...(general infant mortal- ity, low birth ...
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Birth Weight and Duration of Breast-Feeding: Are the Beneficial Effects of Human Milk Being Overestimated?
... The association between birth weight and breast-feeding and the magnitude of the con- founding effect is illustrated using data from a longitu- dinal study of infant mortality in Pelotas[r] ...
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Annual Summary of Vital Statistics—2001
... provisional infant mortality rate was ...in infant mortality remain a major public health concern, with the rate for infants of black mothers ...all infant deaths occurred among the ...
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Relationship between maternal periodontal disease and low birth weight babies
... Low birth weight (LBW) babies, defined as babies having birth weights of less than 2500g, represented disproportionately large component of neonatal and infant mortality ...
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Annual Summary of Vital Statistics: 2010–2011
... teenage birth rate fell to another historic low in 2011, ...women. Birth rates also declined for women aged 20 to 29 years, but the rates increased for women aged 35 to 39 and 40 to 44 ...preterm ...
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The Disappearing Income Gradient in New York City Birth Outcomes: Thirteen Years of Convergence From 1988 to 2001
... control for time invariant unobservable differences across health districts and a linear time trend variable captures the secular trend in the outcome over the entire period. We also include quartile*trend interaction ...
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Annual Summary of Vital Statistics: 2000
... at birth reached a record high of ...2001;108:1241–1255; birth, birth weight-specific mortality, death, infant mortality, low birth weight, mortality, ...
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Poverty, Hunger, Malnutrition, Prematurity, and Infant Mortality in the United States
... At about the same time, Food Research and Action Center issued another report pointing to the well-known fact that rates of black infant mortality and low birth weight were twice as high[r] ...
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Birth Spacing and Child Health in Urban Brazilian Children
... those born after intermediate intervals, for the >early’ health outcomes of birth weight, perinatal mortality, and infant mortality. No information was available,[r] ...
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Annual Summary of Vital Statistics—1997
... at birth reached a new high in 1997 of ...1997, mortality due to HIV infection declined by ...1998;102:1333–1349; birth, death, infant mortal- ity, low birth weight, ...
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Risk Factors and Estimation Tool for Death Among Extremely Premature Infants: A National Study
... weeks; birth weight percentile, ⫹ 16% for each group of ⱕ 75th per- centile; no prenatal steroid treatment, ⫹ 22%; multiple birth, ⫹ ...estimated mortality rates was ...estimated ...
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