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Newborns at higher altitudes have up to 37 percent higher mortality rates

07.14.21 | PLOS
Newborns at higher altitudes have up to 37 percent higher mortality rates
Adjusted hazard ratios of the incidence rate of death per each altitude stratum according to three mixed-effects multivariate Cox proportional hazards models, considering the reference an altitude of the health care facility where neonates were attended of Credit: Dueñas-Espín et al, 2021, PLOS ONE (CC-BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Newborns at higher altitudes have up to 37 percent higher mortality rates, perhaps because of lower availability of blood oxygen, vitamins and minerals.

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Article Title: Is a higher altitude associated with shorter survival among at-risk neonates?

Funding: This work was part of the "Score Bebé" project. IDE, LAA, RJ, MFR, BT were supported by Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, https://www.puce.edu.ec/ ) grant number QINV0025-IINV533010100. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0253413

PLOS ONE

10.1371/journal.pone.0253413

Keywords

Data Analysis Mortality Rates Vitamins

Article Information

Journal
PLOS ONE
DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0253413

Contact Information

Iván Dueñas Espín
igduenase@puce.edu.ec

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