Birthweight Specific Perinatal Mortality in Greece
| Autor: | Chryssa Tzoumaka-Bakoula, Brian J. McCarthy, Vasso Lekea-Karanika, Jean Golding, N Matsaniotis |
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| Rok vydání: | 1990 |
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Pediatrics
medicine.medical_specialty Denmark Birth weight education Population Danish Cause of Death Infant Mortality medicine Birth Weight Humans reproductive and urinary physiology Asphyxia education.field_of_study Greece business.industry Mortality rate Incidence (epidemiology) Infant Newborn General Medicine Infant mortality language.human_language Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health language medicine.symptom business Developed country Demography |
| Zdroj: | Acta Paediatrica. 79:47-51 |
| ISSN: | 1651-2227 0803-5253 |
| Popis: | Data from the Greek Perinatal Study in April 1983 revealed an excessively high perinatal mortality rate of 21.6/1000 total births among singletons despite a low birthweight rate of 21.6/1000 total births among singletons despite a low birthweight rate of only 4.5%. Comparison of perinatal mortality rates with Danish mortality rates in 1983 revealed the Greek rates to be 3 times higher than those in Denmark. When divided by time of death the Greek stillbirth rates were 2 times higher and the early neonatal mortality rates were 4 times higher than the corresponding Danish rates. Subdivision of the Greek perinatal deaths using the Wigglesworth classification showed that the biggest group (40%) consisted of deaths associated with intrapartum asphyxia. The incidence of such deaths was 10 times higher than that found in Denmark. The authors conclude that in reducing the excessively high perinatal mortality rate in Greece special attention should be made to improve intrapartum and resuscitation techniques. (authors) |
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