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ArticleNigerian medical journal : journal of the Nigeria Medical Association2014

Contributing death factors in very low-birth-weight infants by path method analysis.

Morteza Ghojazadeh, Atefeh Velayati, Fatemeh Mallah, Saber Azami-Aghdash, Keyvan Mirnia, Reza Piri, Mohammad Naghavi-Behzad

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Article in Nigerian medical journal : journal of the Nigeria Medical Association, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Morteza GhojazadehWomen's Reproductive Health Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
Atefeh VelayatiDepartment of Midwifery, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran.
Fatemeh MallahWomen's Reproductive Health Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
Saber Azami-AghdashTabriz Health Service Management Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
Keyvan MirniaDepartment of Neonatology, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
Reza PiriStudents' Research Committee, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
Mohammad Naghavi-BehzadMedical Philosophy and History Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
Tabriz University of Medical Sciences · IRIslamic Azad University of Tabriz · IR

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Abstract

backgroundNeonatal deaths account for 40% of deaths under the age of 5 years worldwide. Therefore, efforts to achieve the UN Millennium Development Goal 4 of reducing childhood mortality by two-thirds by 2015 are focused on reducing neonatal deaths in high-mortality countries. The aim of present study was to determine death factors among very low-birth-weight infants by path method analysis. MATERIALS AND

methodsIn this study, medical records of 2,135 infants admitted between years 2008 and 2010 in neonatal intense care unit of Alzahra Educational-Medical centre (Tabriz, Iran) were analysed by path method using statistical software SPSS 18.

resultsVariables such as duration of hospitalisation, birth weight, gestational age have negative effect on infant mortality, and gestational blood pressure has positive direct effect on infant mortality that at whole represented 66.5% of infant mortality variance (F = 1018, P < 0.001). Gestational age termination in the positive form through birth weight, and also gestational blood pressure in negative form through hospitalisation period had indirect effect on infant mortality.

conclusionThe results of the study indicated that the duration of low-birth-weight infant's hospitalisation is also associated with infant's mortality (coefficient -0.7; P < 0.001). This study revealed that among the maternal factors only gestational blood pressure was in relationship with infants' mortality.

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Effective factorsinfant mortalitypath analysisvery low birth weight

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