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Table 5 Death and hospitalization after delivery by infant gender

From: Gender variations in neonatal and early infant mortality in India and Pakistan: a secondary analysis from the Global Network Maternal Newborn Health Registry

Characteristic

Overall

Infant gender

Unadjusted RR

p-value

Male

Female

Stillbirths, N (rate/1000)1,2,3

8648 (29.1)

4806 (31.0)

3842 (26.9)

1.15 (1.10, 1.20)

< .0001

Perinatal mortality rates, N (rate/1000)1,2,3

 ≤ 7 days

15,681 (52.9)

8854 (57.4)

6827 (48.0)

1.19 (1.15, 1.23)

< .0001

 ≤ 28 days

17,398 (58.7)

767 (63.3)

631 (53.6)

1.17 (1.14, 1.21)

< .0001

Neonatal mortality rates, N (rate/1000)1,2,3

 1–28 days

8750 (30.4)

4961 (33.2)

3789 (27.4)

1.21 (1.16, 1.26)

< .0001

 1–7 days

7033 (24.4)

4048 (27.1)

2985 (21.6)

1.25 (1.19, 1.31)

< .0001

 8–28 days

1717 (6.1)

913 (6.3)

804 (5.9)

1.06 (0.97, 1.15)

0.1760

 29–42 days

559 (2.0)

303 (2.1)

256 (1.9)

1.11 (0.95, 1.29)

0.1946

Conditions requiring hospitalization in follow up, N (%)1,2

4074 (1.5)

2399 (1.8)

1675 (1.3)

 

< .0001

  1. 1All MNH Registry 2010–2018 infants born in 08 Belagavi, 11 Nagpur, and 09 Pakistan with exclusions miscarriage, MTP, and maternal deaths prior to delivery
  2. 2Categorical variable p-values are computed with a cluster-stratified CMH test
  3. 3Relative risks are unadjusted, calculated from a model using GEE to adjust for cluster