Neonatal mortality

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• Synonyms

  • Neonatal death
  • Death after birth

• Causes

  • Premature birth
  • Complication of childbirth
  • Multiple birth
  • Obesity
  • Cigarette smoking
  • Low birth weight
  • Congenital rubella
  • Rhesus incompatibility
  • Chickenpox
  • Congenital malformation
  • Congenital malformation syndrome
  • Congenital heart disease
  • Congenital metabolic disease
  • Congenital muscle disease
  • Congenital neurological disease
  • Congenital renal disease

• Description

  • "neonatal death is higher in babies born to women under the age of 25
  • and women over the age of 40"