Maternal anaemia and risk of neonatal and infant mortality in low- and middle-income countries: a secondary analysis of 45 national datasets.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Anaemia in pregnancy has been recognised worldwide as a growing public health concern and an important cause of adverse neonatal outcomes. However, only a limited number of studies have been done in low-income settings, which have the highest prevalence of anaemia. We aimed to investigate the association between maternal anaemia and neonatal and infant mortality in low- and middle-income countries.

Methods

Secondary analysis of pooled data from 45 national demographic and health surveys (2010-2020). We included all women between 15 and 49 years old, who had singleton live birth within 1 year preceding the survey, with a valid maternal measurement of haemoglobin. We used logistic regression models to estimate the crude and adjusted OR (aOR) with 95% CIs of the asso

SUBMITTER: Tsamantioti E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11877194 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature