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A retrospective follow up study on maternal age and infant mortality in two Sicilian districts

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Title
A retrospective follow up study on maternal age and infant mortality in two Sicilian districts
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BMC Public Health, October 2011
DOI 10.1186/1471-2458-11-817
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Walter Mazzucco, Rosanna Cusimano, Maurizio Macaluso, Claudio La Scola, Giovanna Fiumanò, Salvatore Scondotto, Achille Cernigliaro, Giovanni Corsello, Giuseppe La Torre, Francesco Vitale

Abstract

Infant mortality rate (IMR) is a key public health indicator. Maternal age is a well-known determinant of pregnancy and delivery complications and of infant morbidity and mortality. In Italy the Infant Mortality Rate was 3.7/1000 during 2005, lower than the average IMR for the European Union (4.94/1000). Sicily is the Italian region with the highest IMR, 5/1000, and neonatal mortality rate (NMR), 3.8/1000, with substantial variation among its nine districts. The present study compared a high IMR/NMR district (Messina) with a low IMR/NMR district (Palermo) during the period 2004-2006 to evaluate potential determinants of the IMRs' differences between the two districts and specifically the impact of maternal age.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Peru 1 4%
Unknown 25 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 5 19%
Student > Bachelor 4 15%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 12%
Other 2 8%
Other 5 19%
Unknown 4 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 8 31%
Nursing and Health Professions 5 19%
Social Sciences 3 12%
Psychology 2 8%
Environmental Science 1 4%
Other 2 8%
Unknown 5 19%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

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#14,138,735
of 22,655,397 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#10,249
of 14,737 outputs
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#89,666
of 139,261 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#138
of 193 outputs
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