International Ranking of Infant Mortality Rates: Taiwan Compared with European Countries
Pediatrics and Neonatology, 2016 Rankings of infant mortality rates are commonly cited international comparisons to assess the health status of individual countries. We compared the infant mortality rate of Taiwan with those of European countries for 2004 according to two definitions ...
Fu-Wen Liang +6 more
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Postneonatal mortality of severely small for gestational age extremely low birth weight infants
Pediatrics and Neonatology, 2023 Background: Infants born with weights below the 10th percentile of the expected birth weight for gestational age, defined as small for gestational age (SGA), have an increased risk of neonatal mortality and prematurity-related complications. However, the
Yasuka Kimoto +5 more
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Risk factors of infant mortality in rural The Gambia: a retrospective cohort study [PDF]
BMJ Paediatrics Open, 2021 Objective The main objective was to assess the risk factors for infant mortality among children living in the Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) in Farafenni, The Gambia.
Anna Roca +5 more
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Determining the optimal timing for Tetralogy of Fallot management: A meta-analysis of neonatal vs postneonatal repairs [PDF]
Annals of Pediatric CardiologyBackground: Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF), the most prevalent cyanotic congenital heart anomaly, impacts around 3.9 in 10,000 live births. Repair aims to address intracardiac shunting and right ventricular outflow tract obstruction.
Starry Homenta Rampengan +8 more
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Air pollution attributable postneonatal infant mortality in U.S. metropolitan areas: a risk assessment study [PDF]
Environmental Health, 2004 Background The impact of outdoor air pollution on infant mortality has not been quantified. Methods Based on exposure-response functions from a U.S. cohort study, we assessed the attributable risk of postneonatal infant mortality in 23 U.S.
Krzyzanowski Michal +5 more
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Stillbirth, Neonatal, and Child Mortality in Bangladesh: Progress and Persistent Public Health Challenges. [PDF]
Public Health ChallABSTRACT Bangladesh made substantial gains in child survival over two decades, with the under‐five mortality rate falling from 94 to 30 per 1000 live births between 2000 and 2020. Recent data from the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, however, point to a troubling reversal.
Rahman MS, Shiddik MAB.
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Stunting Mediates the Association between Small-for-Gestational-Age and Postneonatal Mortality. [PDF]
Journal of Nutrition, 2016 Jean H Humphrey, Parul Christian
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The cerebral palsy directed acyclic graph: A structural causal model of aetiology. [PDF]
Dev Med Child NeurolThe first international cerebral palsy directed acyclic graph (CP‐DAG) maps over 100 nodes and 370 links across biological, clinical, and social domains, offering a unified causal framework to guide research and identify knowledge gaps. This original article is commented by Gagliardi on pages 1497–1498 of this issue.
Goldsmith S +9 more
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Jornal de Pediatria, 2022 Objective: To analyse the mortality trends in children under five years old in Brazil from 2017 to 2020 and the influence of COVID-19 in 2020. Methods: A retrospective study employing secondary data from the Brazilian Mortality Information System. Deaths
Erly C. Moura +5 more
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Scalp high-frequency activity differentiates neonates with seizures from healthy neonates and indicates postneonatal epilepsy risk. [PDF]
EpilepsiaAbstract Objective This study investigated whether scalp high‐frequency activity (HFA) rates in neonates with seizures predict postneonatal epilepsy (PNE). It also assessed whether HFA rates differentiate neonates with seizures from healthy neonates and whether they vary by seizure etiology, therapeutic hypothermia, and electroencephalographic (EEG ...
Karatza P +6 more
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