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Infant Mortality

Known as: Mortality, Infant, infants mortality, fetal or infant mortality 
Postnatal deaths from BIRTH to 365 days after birth in a given population. Postneonatal mortality represents deaths between 28 days and 365 days… 
National Institutes of Health

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Child MortalityFetal DeathNeonatal MortalityPerinatal mortality demographics

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InfantMortality Vital Statisticshuman mortality

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Postneonatal Mortality

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1993
1993
A comparison of prospective and retrospective responses on sudden infant death syndrome by case and control mothers.
Based on information from two studies of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) from 1988-1991 in Tasmania, Australia, prospective… 
Review
1988
Review
1988
Newborn infants with drug withdrawal symptoms.
The overall incidence of substance abuse is stable for all drugs except cocaine which is steadily increasing in popularity in all… 
Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
Sudden infant death syndrome and environmental temperature: an analysis using vital statistics.
We examined the relation between the daily numbers of deaths ascribed to sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) (n = 6226) and daily… 
Review
1981
Review
1981
Infants of adolescent mothers: perinatal, neonatal, and infancy outcome.
Data from 2 studies are analyzed to investigate the social and medical consequences of adolescent parenting: 1) neonatal data on… 
1980
1980
The epidemiology of sudden infant death in upstate New York: II: birth characteristics.
This study describes the epidemiology of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) among infants born during 1974 to upstate New York… 
1980
1980
Waking and ventilatory responses during sleep in infants near-miss for sudden infant death syndrome.
Highly Cited
1978
Highly Cited
1978
Apnea, hypoxemia, and aborted sudden infant death syndrome.
To find out whether there is any relationship between the ventilatory response to hypoxia and the sudden infant death syndrome… 
Highly Cited
1977
Highly Cited
1977
Reversal of cardiopulmonary failure during active sleep in hypoxic kittens: implications for sudden infant death.
Experimentally induced hypoxia in kittens precipitated episodes of depressed respiration and irregular cardiac function during… 
Review
1977
Review
1977
The sudden infant death syndrome: a review of recent advances.
When deaths during the first year of life are sudden, unexpected, and unexplained by any clinical or routine postmortem finding… 
Highly Cited
1975
Highly Cited
1975
Shifting age-parity distribution of births and the decrease in infant mortality.
The infant mortality rate in the United States has declined since 1960. From 1960 to 1965 the decline was negligible and was a… 
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