منابع مشابه
Ethnic differences in perinatal mortality--a challenge.
The perinatal mortality rates of mothers who delivered at St. Thomas's Hospital from 1969 to 1976 have been examined. The rate in the West Indian population was significant higher than in the United Kingdom white population. The increased West Indian mortality was confined to infants with a birth weight of more than 2.0 kg and a gestational age of more than 37 weeks. The relative risk of perina...
متن کاملPerinatal mortality in different ethnic groups.
We have analysed the cause of perinatal deaths in four hospitals in the North West Thames region over a six year period commencing January 1980. The Pakistani population had a significantly greater perinatal mortality rate (15.7/1000 births) than the Europeans (11.3/1000 births). This was due to an increased incidence of macerated stillbirths and lethal malformations, the latter resulting from ...
متن کاملAnalysis of ethnic differences in perinatal statistics.
The 3996 mothers delivered at Dudley Road Hospital, Birmingham, in 1979 were analysed for their ethnic origins. Social classes IV and V predominated in all groups. A high proportion of Indian mothers fell into the low-risk group based on age and parity but had the highest stillbirth and perinatal mortality rates (15.1 and 27.5/1000 respectively) and infants of low mean birth weight (2986 g). El...
متن کاملEthnic differences in neonatal and postneonatal mortality.
OBJECTIVE Ethnic disparities in infant mortality have been consistently documented in the United States, but these disparities are poorly understood. Although the infant mortality rate in the United States has fallen to record low rates, since 1971 the ethnic disparity between black and white infants has remained unchanged or increased. In 2001, the infant mortality rate among black infants was...
متن کاملSex differences in mortality by ethnic background
In the Nordic countries the female survival advantage has been observed at least since the middle of the 18 th century. The extent of the gender gap in mortality is varying substantially between countries. Denmark and Sweden are considered countries with a small gender gap in mortality. In this study we address whether the substantial differences in the gender gap that are observed between coun...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Pediatric Research
سال: 1980
ISSN: 0031-3998,1530-0447
DOI: 10.1203/00006450-198012000-00110