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## Objectives: To study the relationship between cause-specific perinatal death rates, material deprivation and birthweight among births in 3 consecutive years in the west midlands health region. ## Study design: Retrospective cohort study. ## Setting: West midlands health region (wmhr). ## Study population: All births (live and stillbirths) to mothers with addresses in the wmhr in 1991, 1992 and 1993. ## Main outcome measures: Cause-specific perinatal death rates--crude and stratified by birthweight. ## Methods: Perinatal deaths in the wmhr in 1991-93, collected as part of the national confidential enquiry into stillbirths and deaths in infancy, were classified into causes of death by the extended wigglesworth classification. crude rates for cause-specific perinatal deaths and rates stratified by birthweight or = 2500 g were calculated for each enumeration district (ed) quintile derived by ranking enumeration districts for the whole of the region by townsend deprivation index. cause-specific rates of death were investigated for a linear trend across ed quintiles. the relative risk of death (most vs least deprived) from specific causes was calculated. using rates for the least de

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Author

S Bambang; N J Spencer; S Logan; L Gill

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (Blackwell Publishing); Blackwell Publishing Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0305-1862)

Published

2000

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)