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- Male infants are more likely to die in early life compared to female infants, despite overall improvements in survival rates in industrialized countries.
- The study analyzes factors that influence infant mortality, such as mother's age, education, birth order, and gestational age, focusing specifically on deaths during the perinatal period.
- Findings reveal that male excess mortality is more pronounced in newborns who die within their first week of life than in stillborns, suggesting that the risks associated with male infants extend from late pregnancy into the early neonatal period.
Article Abstract
In industrialized countries, male excess is generally found in early deaths, despite the overall decrease in mortality. We studied the association between sex and some factors generally considered crucial for babies' survival, such as mother's age and education, birth order, and gestational age, in order to gain insight into the causes underlying the persisting higher vulnerability of male sex in early life. The analysis was performed on babies dying during the perinatal period. These were subdivided into those who were stillborn and those who died during the first week of extrauterine life. A higher male excess among babies dying during the neonatal period than among those who were stillborn was always found in all classes of all factors. The finding of such generalized male overmortality in the early extrauterine period of life, together with the patterns shown by the temporal sex ratio in stillbirths and in early deaths, supports the hypothesis of a postponement of male risk from late fetal into neonatal life.
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