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- Prematurity (less than 37 weeks of gestation) and low birth weight (less than 2,500 grams at birth) are both important risk factors for infant mortality. About two thirds of infant death were premature (66.3%) or had low birth weight (67.6%), and 63.5% were both premature and low birth weight.
- In 2000, of the 148 infant deaths in the province, 48 were term (gestational age 37-41 weeks), one was post-term (42 weeks or more), 98 were premature (gestational age less than 37 weeks), and the gestational age of the remaining one was unknown. Among term babies, there were 1.29 infant deaths per 1,000 live births with normal gestational age. The infant mortality rate rose dramatically for premature infants; there were 11.12 infant deaths per 1,000 live births with a gestational age of 28 weeks to 36 weeks, and 424.05 deaths per 1,000 live births with 20 to 27 weeks of gestation.
- Of the 98 infant deaths that were premature, 94 were also low birth weight babies, and 67 or these were both extremely premature (gestational age of less than 28 weeks at birth) and very low birth weight (less than 1,500 grams).
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