Neonatal mortality in Utah
| Autor: | Joseph L. Lyon, Katharina L. Schuman, F. Ross Woolley |
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| Rok vydání: | 1982 |
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Gerontology
Male Risk Epidemiology Population Christianity Drug/alcohol abstinence Utah Infant Mortality Medicine Birth Weight Humans education Life Style education.field_of_study business.industry Confounding Absolute risk reduction Infant Newborn Confidence interval Infant mortality Female business Epidemiologic Methods Demography Cohort study Alcohol Abstinence |
| Zdroj: | American journal of epidemiology. 116(3) |
| ISSN: | 0002-9262 |
| Popis: | 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. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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