Cohort profile: the WHO Child Mortality Risk Stratification Multi-Country Pooled Cohort (WHO-CMRS) to identify predictors of mortality through early childhood.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To provide details of a pooled data set that will be used to estimate absolute and relative mortality risks and other outcomes among children less than 59 months of age and the predictive performance of common risk exposures, both individually and in combination.

Participants

Children from birth to 5 years of age recruited at health facilities or community settings into 33 longitudinal observational or intervention studies in 17 low- and middle-income countries.

Findings to date

The data set includes 75 287 children with a median age of 3 months (IQR 1-12) at first measurement. In the pooled sample, 2805 (3.7%) of the study children died. Data on birth weight was recorded in 19 studies, and gestational age in 13 studies. Among these, 14% of the included childr

SUBMITTER: Schwinger C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11605845 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature