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Association of Maternal Body Mass Index With Risk of Infant Mortality: A Dose-Response Meta-Analysis
Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2021 Objective: This study presumed that a high or low body mass index (BMI) might increase the risk of infant mortality. Therefore, a meta-analysis was performed to systematically assess the association between maternal BMI and the risk of infant mortality ...
Nana Huo +6 more
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Sofas and Infant Mortality [PDF]
Pediatrics, 2014 OBJECTIVE:Sleeping on sofas increases the risk of sudden infant death syndrome and other sleep-related deaths. We sought to describe factors associated with infant deaths on sofas.METHODS:We analyzed data for infant deaths on sofas from 24 states in 2004 to 2012 in the National Center for the Review and Prevention of Child Deaths Case Reporting System ...
Lauren R, Rechtman +3 more
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Tropical Medicine and Health, 2021 Background Despite the remarkable decrease in infant mortality rate in most countries, the rate of decline is slow and it remains unacceptably high in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Getayeneh Antehunegn Tesema +1 more
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SSM: Population Health, 2022 Infant and child mortality are often used to monitor the progress of national population health programs. The data for this study was collected from selected urban slums where icddr,b has maintained the Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS ...
Abdur Razzaque +6 more
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Children, 2022 Background: U.S. maternal and infant mortality rates constitute an important public health problem, because these rates surpass those in developed countries and are characterized by stark disparities for racial/ethnic minorities, rural residents, and ...
Rada K. Dagher, Deborah E. Linares
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Regional disparities in infant mortality in Canada: a reversal of egalitarian trends
BMC Public Health, 2009 Background Although national health insurance plans and social programs introduced in the 1960s led to reductions in regional disparities in infant mortality in Canada, it is unclear if such patterns prevailed in the 1990s when the health care and ...
Dzakpasu Susie +3 more
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INFANT MORTALITY IN DETROIT [PDF]
American Journal of Public Health, 1921 One-fourth of all deaths are among children of less than one year. Babies succumb in large part to causes acting before birth. To prevent such deaths, increasing attention must be paid to prenatal work. Lowest mortality is found among Russian Jews and Italians.
G T, Palmer, G A, Blakeslee
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Infant Mortality in Austria [PDF]
Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, 1962 The exceptionally high mortality in the first year of life has long stimulated research into its causes, the level of the infant mortality rate having been regarded as an indicator of the social and economic well-being of a nation. The dramatic decline in mortality experienced by western countries in the last century has been most pronounced for ...
H, CZERMAK, H, HANSLUWKA
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Infant Mortality and Race in Kansas
Journal of Primary Care & Community Health, 2016 Background: Racial and ethnic minority infants and mothers have worse birth outcomes than Caucasian infants and mothers, specifically infant mortality.
Nikki Keene Woods +2 more
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