BIBLIOGRAPHIC INPUT SHEET TEMPORARY Patterns of mortality ...

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Patternsof Mortalityin Childhood
'TAnix 120. Deaths' of Infants with Congenital Anomalies of Digestive Systemb as Underlying or Associated
Causes or as Minor Anomalies in 15 Projects.
Project
No.
Total
Rate
Underlying cause
No.
Rate
Associated cause
No.
Rate
Minor anomaly
No.
Rate
Total ........................... 809
170.7
.07 85.9 159 3:3.5 243 51.3
ARGENTINA
Chaco Province ................ 27 15:3.4 17 96.6 4 22.7 6 34.1
San Juan Province ............. 62 265.4 35 149.8 9 38.5 18 77.1
BOLIVIA project ................ 40 106.4 27 71.8 8 21.3 5 13.3
BRAZIL
Recife ........................ 50 184.2 28 92.1 17 55.9 11 36.2
Rileirmto Preto ................. 33 180.9 24 131.6 5 27.4 4 21.9
Sao Paulo ..................... 135 232.1 50 86.0 22 37.8 63 108.3
CANADA
Sherbrooke .................... 24 141.4 1:3 76.0 5 29.5 6 35.4
CHILE project.................. 94 215.7 44 101.0 16 36.7 34 78.0
COLOM3IA
Call .......................... 28 132.7 16 75.8 9 12.7 3 14.2
Cartagena ..................... 31 173.2 16 89.4 6 33.5 9 50.3
Medellfn ...................... 43 221.6 20 103.1 12 61.9 11 56.7
EL SALVAI)OR project ......... 59 190.2 25 80.0 8 25.8 20 83.8
JAMAICA
Kingston-St. Andrew ........... 41 100.1 30 73.2 5 12.2 6 14.0
MEXICO
Monterrev...y................8.5 100.3 44 83.0 20 37.7 21 39.6
UNITEI) STATES
California project .............. 51 114.0 18 40.2 13 29.1 20 44.7
, Rates per 100,000 livebirths.
"Categories 524, 550, 551, 749-751.
Fio. 105. Mortality of Infants with Congenital separately (Table 121 and Figure 106). Ap-
Anomalies of Digestive System as Underlying or
Associated Causes or its Minor Anomalies in 15 parently these conditions are rare illKings-
Projects.
ton-St. Andrew, as only four infants were
DEATHSPh 100,.000LVE S,THS found with such anomalies (9.8 deaths per
,0o0o200 300 100,000 live births). The numher was small
SJu"vi ..... also in the Sherbrooke project (3 infants, or
S....... ia rate of 17.7). It contrast, three projects
had death rates of from 68.2 to 72.8 (Chaco
a SoK, PO
:. Province, Medellin, and San Juan Provi
.ince). This wide variation can be .Pen in
MM .. _ ... Figure 106. In the two projects in Argentina
,,,... these con(itions were serious and were aso0o=Myl
signed as underlying causes for 8 of the 12
CAU
deaths in this category in Chaco Province
umm
and for 12 of 17 in San uan Province.
SMAUIn
all p)rojects these anomalies were con-
KV0.-SIAD l lNsidered minor in only 29 (17.4 per cent) of
UNDERLYINO ASSOCIATED MINOR these deceased infants. However, slightly
CAUSE CAUSE ANOMALY more of them were classed as associated