TY - JOUR
AU - DA SILVA, MARIA CLOTILDE
AB - Previous studies of an urban and a rural epidemic in Guinea-Bissau have shown perinatal mortality to be statistically significantly higher among children whose mothers have been exposed to measles during pregnancy. After the epidemic in 1979 in Bandim, a district in the capital of Guinea-Bissau, such children also had a postperinatal childhood mortality risk (7 days to 5 years of age) of 0.229, compared with 0.134 for other children in the community. None of the mothers had developed clinical measles. In a Cox regression analysis adjusting for known background factors, the mortality hazard ratio between the exposed and the controls was found to be 2.0 (95% confidence interval 1.1–3.8). After a small rural measles epidemic in Quinhamel in 1983, the mortality hazard ratio for children of mothers exposed during pregnancy compared with controls was 1.7 (95% confidence interval 0.6–4.6). Exposure to measles or some concomitantly transmitted pathogen during fetal life may contribute to the high childhood mortality found in many developing countries.
TI - INCREASED POSTPERINATAL CHILD MORTALITY AMONG CHILDREN OF MOTHERS EXPOSED TO MEASLES DURING PREGNANCY
JO - American Journal of Epidemiology
DO - 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a115689
DA - 1990-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/increased-postperinatal-child-mortality-among-children-of-mothers-fj3UduMW8t
SP - 531
EP - 539
VL - 132
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -