Comprehensive Assessment of Risk Factors of Cause-Specific Infant Deaths in Japan.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Public attention is given to infants with socially high risks of child abuse and neglect, while clinical attention is provided to infants with a biologically high risk of diseases. However, few studies have systematically evaluated how biological or social factors cross over and affect cause-specific infant mortality.

Methods

We linked birth data with death data from the Japanese national vital statistics database for all infants born from 2003-2010. Using multivariate logistic regression, we examined the association between biological and social factors and infant mortality due to medical causes (internal causes), abuse (intentional external causes), and accidents (unintentional external causes).

Results

Of 8,941,501 births, 23,400 (0.26%) infants died by

SUBMITTER: Yamaoka Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5976875 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature