Apgar score and neonatal mortality in China: an observational study from a national surveillance system.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To examine the association between the Apgar score and neonatal mortality over gestational age in China and to explore whether this association changed when Apgar scores were combined at 1 and 5 min.

Methods

Data for all singleton live births collected from 438 hospitals between 2012 and 2016 were used in this study. Poisson regression with a robust variance estimator adjusted for a complete set of confounders was used to describe the strength of the association between the Apgar score and neonatal mortality.

Results

The relative risks of neonatal death-associated intermediate Apgar score at 5 min peaked at 39-40 weeks of gestation and subsequently decreased if the gestational age increased to 42 weeks or above, in contrast to the low Apgar score. Among bot

SUBMITTER: Mu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7802282 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature