| Autor: |
Bolton, D.P.G., Cross, K.W. |
| Zdroj: |
The Lancet; March 1974, Vol. 303 Issue: 7855 p445-448, 4p |
| Abstrakt: |
The hypothesis that the detrimental effect on the decline of the death rate in the first days of life might have been caused by relative deprivation of administered oxygen from 1951 onwards has been further examined. It has now been shown as predicted (1) that (in New York) this failure of the death rate to improve was observable only in low-birth-weight infants, (2) that the effect was more pronounced in the City of New York than in the rest of that State. It has also been shown that the alternative hypotheses linking still-birth rates with this " effect " are untenable, because of lack of correlation between declines and plateaux on the two sides of the Atlantic in the same period. Methods of prediction are described, and grounds for justification discussed, which suggest that since 1950 there have been unnecessary deaths in excess of 20,000 in England and Wales and in excess of 150,000 in the U.S.A. |
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