A Population-Based Registry Study of Infant Mortality in the Arctic: Greenland and Denmark, 1973–1997

Friborg, Jeppe; Koch, Anders; Stenz, Flemming; Wohlfahrt, Jan; Melbye, Mads

doi:10.2105/ajph.94.3.452

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“…For boys with five-minute Apgar scores below 7, mortality before age 1 year was 28%, most of the deaths occurring among boys with scores below four. The overall mortality before age 1 year was 0.8%, which is consistent with the period nationwide estimates [ 35 ]. We had no information on potentially eligible men who may have been institutionalized for legal or health reasons.…”

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Association of Apgar score at five minutes with long-term neurologic disability and cognitive function in a prevalence study of Danish conscripts

Ehrenstein

Pedersen

Grijota

et al. 2009

BMC Pregnancy Childbirth

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Association of Apgar score at five minutes with long-term neurologic disability and cognitive function in a prevalence study of Danish conscripts

Ehrenstein

Pedersen

Grijota

et al. 2009

BMC Pregnancy Childbirth

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“…Despite a low birthweight rate, the infant mortality is high compared with Denmark (41), even when the same frequency of very low birthweight (below 1,500 grams) is seen. In general, the early mortality rate has been unevenly distributed within Greenland with more deaths in rural areas, many of which may have been preventable infant deaths (19,24). The deaths were spread over the whole birthweight distribution (24) as was also found among Alaska Natives (38), although data from 1987-1991 showed perinatal mortality to be especially frequent in children weighing 1,500 to 2,499 grams (19).…”

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“…It resulted in identifying 7 publications. The abstracts were read and 3 articles, including research on birthweight, were analysed (24)(25)(26).…”

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Low birthweight as an indicator of child health in Greenland—use, knowledge and implications

Niclasen¹

2007

International Journal of Circumpolar Health

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Objectives. The aim of this study was to analyse if low birthweight is a valuable indicator of child health in Greenland. Study design. A case study focusing on "low birthweight as an indicator in Greenland" with 3 units and 5 subunits of analyses. Methods. Literature reviews, interviews with health care professionals and an analysis of the National Birth Register. Results. Low birthweight was a well-known and yearly surveyed indicator, but not used by clinicians or by policymakers. Research was sparse, but the major risk factor observed was smoking. The rate of low birthweight in 1997-2005 was on average 5.0%. Of the low birthweight cases, 67.0% infants were born prematurely but only 44.8% of these births had a low birthweight. The known risk factors for a low birthweight in Greenland included abnormal delivery, low Apgar score at 5 minutes, female gender, multiple birth, being a single mother and less than complete prenatal care by a midwife. For preterm birth, associations were found with a not normal delivery, perinatal mortality, low Apgar score at 5 minutes, multiple birth, single mothers, mothers born in Greenland, young mothers, mothers living in a village and in nulliparae. Conclusions. Low birthweight is as valuable an indicator of child health at the national level in Greenland as it is in other developed countries. If interventions are to be aimed at known, quantitatively important, modifiable determinants of low birthweight, the results suggest that cigarette smoking and antenatal care are the most important to address (Int J Circumpolar Health 2007; 66(3):215-225).

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“…In a Danish population study of 678 consecutive live births of infants with OFC from 1977 to 1981, the mortality rate was 35 per 1000 (3.5%) (N = 24) before the age of 22 months 4 . The mortality rate of cleft infants in Denmark was higher compared to the general population’s post-neonatal mortality rate of 30 to 32 per 1000 (3.0 to 3.2%) reported in the same period 26 . A study of Dutch infants with isolated and non-isolated orofacial clefts reported the IMR to be elevated at 21 per 1000 (2.1%), which was significantly higher than the Dutch population IMR of 4.5 per 1000 (0.45%) 27 .…”

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Epidemiologic trends of infants with orofacial clefts in a multiethnic country: a retrospective population-based study

Yow

Jin

Yeo

2021

Sci Rep

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Cleft births surveillance is essential in healthcare and prevention planning. Data are needed in precision medicine to target upstream management for at-risk individuals. This study characterizes Singapore’s population-based orofacial cleft topography by ethnicity and gender, and establishes the cleft cohort’s infant mortality rate. Data, in the decade 2003 to 2012, were extracted by the National Birth Defects Registry. Trend testing by linear regression was at p < 0.05 significance level. Prevalence per 10,000 for population-based cleft live births was 16.72 with no significant upward trend (p = 0.317). Prevalence rates were 8.77 in the isolated cleft group, 7.04 in the non-isolated cleft group, and 0.91 in the syndromic cleft group. There was significant upward trend in infants with non-isolated clefts (p = 0.0287). There were no significant upward trends in infants with isolated clefts and syndromic clefts. Prevalence rates were sexually dimorphic and ethnic-specific: male 17.72; female 15.78; Chinese group 17.17; Malay group 16.92; Indian group 10.74; and mixed ethnic origins group 21.73. The overall infant mortality rate (IMR) was 4.8% in the cohort of 608 cleft births, which was more than double the population-based IMR of 2.1% in the same period. Infants with non-isolated and syndromic clefts accounted for 96.6% of the deaths.

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A Population-Based Registry Study of Infant Mortality in the Arctic: Greenland and Denmark, 1973–1997

Abstract: Postneonatal mortality rates in Greenland have decreased significantly during the past 25 years, but little progress has been made in decreasing neonatal mortality rates. Disparities exist among children with different maternal origins.

Cited by 10 publications

References 13 publications

Association of Apgar score at five minutes with long-term neurologic disability and cognitive function in a prevalence study of Danish conscripts

Association of Apgar score at five minutes with long-term neurologic disability and cognitive function in a prevalence study of Danish conscripts

Low birthweight as an indicator of child health in Greenland—use, knowledge and implications

Epidemiologic trends of infants with orofacial clefts in a multiethnic country: a retrospective population-based study

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