NEONATAL MORTALITY IN UTAH

A cohort study of neonatal mortality (N = 106) in white singleton births (N = 14,486) in Utah for January-June 1975 was conducted. Using membership and activity in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormon) as a proxy for parental health practices, i.e., tobacco and alcohol abst...

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Published in:American journal of epidemiology 1982-09, Vol.116 (3), p.541-546
Main Authors: WOOLLEY, F. ROSS, SCHUMAN, KATHARINA L., LYON, JOSEPH L.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Birth Weight
Christianity
Epidemiologic Methods
Female
Humans
infant
Infant Mortality
Infant, Newborn
Life Style
Male
newborn
Risk
Utah
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Summary:A cohort study of neonatal mortality (N = 106) in white singleton births (N = 14,486) in Utah for January-June 1975 was conducted. Using membership and activity in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormon) as a proxy for parental health practices, i.e., tobacco and alcohol abstinence, differential neonatal mortality rates were calculated. The influence of potential confounding factors was evaluated. Low activity LDS members were found to have an excess risk of neonatal death five times greater than high activity LDS, with an upper bound of a two-sided 95% confidence interval of 7.9. The data consistently indicate a lower neonatal mortality rate for active LDS members. Non-LDS were found to have a lower rate than either medium or low activity LDS.
ISSN:0002-9262
1476-6256
DOI:10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a113438