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Secular trend in neonatal mortality in the mountain states
Author(s) -
Frisancho A. Roberto,
Cossman Jeffrey
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
american journal of physical anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.146
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1096-8644
pISSN - 0002-9483
DOI - 10.1002/ajpa.1330330114
Subject(s) - effects of high altitude on humans , infant mortality , neonatal mortality , altitude (triangle) , hypoxia (environmental) , low altitude , demography , secular variation , mortality rate , geography , population , meteorology , physics , geometry , mathematics , sociology , oxygen , quantum mechanics
Reviewing trends in neonatal mortality from 1957 to 1967, it is clear that neonatal and infant mortality has declined faster in the mountain states than in the low altitude states. Accordingly, the increased neonatal and infant mortality at high altitudes or in the mountain states cannot be attributed to high altitude hypoxia alone. Furthermore, the decline in neonatal mortality in the mountain states has not been accompanied by a decrease in the frequency of low birth weight (below 2500 gm) and is therefore not a product of increasing body size in the neonate.