Whole Network Cases Diagnostics Functional Food... News Obesity Studies Treatment

 

Day/night differences in newborn mortality

Filed in archive Studies by kevin on August 2, 2005

A study suggests that more newborn deaths occur at night:

Neonatal death rates are higher after evening and late night deliveries than after daytime deliveries, according to a report by researcher in California.

"The problem most likely represents a mismatch between the clinical demands that Ariselinks at night and a hospital's capacity to deal with these demands," Dr. Jeffrey B. Gould from Stanford University, Palo Alto, told Reuters Health.

Gould and his associates used data from linked birth-death certificates for more than 3 million infants in California to investigate the influence of time of birth and the risk of neonatal death.

Overall, neonatal mortality was 2.08 deaths per 1000 live births, the team reports in the medical journal Obstetrics & Gynecology. The death rate was lower for daytime births (1.88 per 1000 live births) than for early night (2.37 per 1000 births) and late night (2.31 per 1000 live births) births.

Even after adjusting for adequacy of prenatal care, complications of pregnancy, gender, and birth weight, neonatal mortality was 12 percent higher for infants born in the early night and 16 percent higher for infants born late at night, the report indicates.
(Boggs, "More newborn deaths seen with nighttime deliveries", Reuters, Aug.2)






Permalink: Day/night differences in newborn mortality
Tags: hospital  night 

Trackback: http://www.creative-weblogging.com/cgi-bin/mt-tb.pl/8139





RSSrss   | See all blog subscribe options
Google google   |   What is RSS?
Yahoo! yahoo
Addthis Subscribe using any feed reader!
Bloglines Bloglines
Newsletter
Grouptivity

Use the search to look for other interesting posts

pic


 
  • Advertise with us

  • Learn more about our advertising options or email advertising - at - creative-weblogging.com or give us a call at +1 (650) 331 4900.


  • Testimonials

  • 'Thanks, for a very interesting and informative Blog.'

    'Thanks for doing this; it's a terrific site.'

    'I don't know...but why I don't find such informative and profitable blogs so often, I suspect blogging world is becoming so small that we can't find such lucrative blogs like this one.'
Health & Medicine - Top Blogs Philippines

  • Other blogs in the same channel in the Creative Weblogging Network







 

Tagcloud: Allergies Alzheimer's Disease Arthritis Bacteria and Bacterial Infections Blog Carnivals Bone Health Cancer Cardiovascular Health Cases Consumer Alert Controversies Dental Health Diabetes Diagnostics Diarrhea Diet Dietary Supplements and Vitamins Digestive Disorders Epilepsy Eye Health FDA Approvals Functional Foods Genetics HIV & AIDS Influenza Investigational Kid's Health Lung Conditions Lupus Malaria Medical Blogs & Blogging Medical Career Medical Devices Men's Health Mental Maladies Miscellany Multiple Sclerosis Muscular Disorders Nanotechnology Neurological Disorders News Obesity Opinion Oral Health Pain Management Parkinson's Disease Plants & Herbs Poison & Antidotes Pregnancy & Child Birth Psoriasis & Skin Diseases Sexual Health Sleep Disorders Sponsored Post Stem Cell Research Studies Treatment Tuberculosis Viruses and Viral Infection Weight Loss Women's Health