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Table 2 Constitution of GA-specific mortality rates or corrected by the total births of whole region

From: A birth population-based survey of preterm morbidity and mortality by gestational age

GA, weeks 25–27 28–31 32–33 34–36 25–36
Preterm births, n 85 314 428 1824 2651
Prevalence, ‰1 1.4 5.3 7.2 30.8 44.7
Perinatal mortality, n 49 83 32 60 224
R1, % 57.6 26.4 7.5 3.3 8.4
R2, ‰ 0.8 1.4 0.5 1.0 3.8
Fetal deaths / stillbirths, n 31 49 20 37 137
R1, % 36.5 15.6 4.7 2.0 5.2
R2, ‰ 0.5 0.8 0.3 0.6 2.3
Deaths at DR, n 12 11 2 2 27
R1, % 14.1 3.5 0.5 0.1 1.0
R2, ‰ 0.2 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.5
Neonatal mortality, n 24 42 15 26 107
R1, %2 44.4 15.8 3.7 1.5 4.3
R2, ‰3 0.4 0.7 0.3 0.4 1.8
All deaths, n 61 93 35 63 252
R1, % 71.8 29.6 8.2 3.5 9.5
R2, ‰ 1.0 1.6 0.6 1.1 4.3
  1. Abbreviations: GA, gestational age; DR, delivery room. Values are number (n) or rate. GA-specific mortality rate (R1, %) = (number of deaths of each GA stratum / number of births of the same GA stratum) × 100; GA-specific mortality rate corrected by the number of total births (including term and post term births) of whole region (R2, ‰) = GA-specific mortality rate × prevalence of each GA in the total births = (number of deaths of each GA stratum / the number of total births [59,245]) × 1000. For definition of all-death see Table 1 legends, note 6
  2. 1. Prevalences of each GA in the total births (‰) = (number of births of each GA stratum / the number of total births) × 1000
  3. 2. R1, calculated by number of neonatal deaths of each GA stratum divided by number of livebirths in the same GA stratum
  4. 3. R2, calculated by number of neonatal deaths of each GA stratum divided by the number of livebirths (including term and post term births) of whole region (59,056)
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