gestational age patterns of fetal and neonatal mortality in europe results from the euro-peristat project胎龄的胎儿和新生儿死亡率在欧洲模式的结果euro-peristat项目.pdfVIP

Gestational Age Patterns of Fetal and Neonatal Mortality in Europe: Results from the Euro-Peristat Project 1 1 2 3 Ashna D. Mohangoo *, Simone E. Buitendijk , Katarzyna Szamotulska , Jim Chalmers , Lorentz M. 4 5 6 7,8 Irgens , Francisco Bolumar , Jan G. Nijhuis , Jennifer Zeitlin , the Euro-Peristat Scientific Committee 1 Department Child Health, TNO Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research, Leiden, The Netherlands, 2 Department of Epidemiology, National Research Institute of Mother and Child, Warsaw, Poland, 3 Information Services Division, NHS National Services Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland, 4 Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care, University of Bergen and Medical Birth Registry of Norway, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Norway, 5 Department of Public Health Sciences, ´ University of Alcala, Madrid, Spain, 6 Maastricht University Medical Center, GROW School for Oncology and Developmental Biology, Maastricht, The Netherlands, 7 INSERM, UMRS 953, Epidemiological Research Unit on Perinatal and Women’s and Children’s Health, Paris, France, 8 UPMC Univ Paris 06, Paris, France Abstract Background: The first European Perinatal Health Report showed wide variability between European countries in fetal (2.6– 9.1%) and neonatal (1.6–5.7%) mortality rates in 2004. We investigated gestational age patterns of fetal and neonatal mortality to improve our understanding of the differences between countries with low and high mortality. Methodology/Principal Findings: Data on 29 countries/regions participating in the