The lowest birth-weight infants and the US infant mortality rate: NCHS 1983 linked birth/infant death data

The National Center for Health Statistics Linked Birth and Infant Death Data Set, 1983 birth cohort, shows that infants weighing less than 750 g, comprising only 0.3% of all births, account for 25% of deaths in the first year of life and for 41% of deaths in the first week. If interventions had prev...

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Published in:American journal of public health (1971) 1992-03, Vol.82 (3), p.441-444
Main Authors: Overpeck, M D, Hoffman, H J, Prager, K
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
African Americans
Analysis. Health state
Babies
Biological and medical sciences
Birth Certificates
Birth Weight
Births
Cohort Studies
Data Interpretation, Statistical
Death Certificates
Epidemiology
European Continental Ancestry Group
Fetal Death - epidemiology
General aspects
Humans
Infant Mortality
Infant, Low Birth Weight
Infant, Newborn
Medical Record Linkage
Medical research
Medical sciences
National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)
Public health
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Risk Factors
Statistics
Survival Rate
Time Factors
United States - epidemiology
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Summary:The National Center for Health Statistics Linked Birth and Infant Death Data Set, 1983 birth cohort, shows that infants weighing less than 750 g, comprising only 0.3% of all births, account for 25% of deaths in the first year of life and for 41% of deaths in the first week. If interventions had prevented the death of these very small babies, the infant mortality rate would have been 8.3 per 1000 live births instead of 10.9, and the Black/White mortality differential would have been reduced by 25%.
ISSN:0090-0036
1541-0048
DOI:10.2105/AJPH.82.3.441