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Table 1 NTD related stillbirth, infant deaths and ToPFA cases, Turkey, 2014–2019

From: Evaluation of neural tube defects from 2014 to 2019 in Turkey

 

2014–2019

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

Change 2014–2019, %

Number of live births, N

7,736,309

1,351,088

1,336,422

1,314,764

1,297,638

1,252,745

1,183,652

 

Number of infant deaths, N

73,698

13,712

13,309

12,746

11,721

11,517

10,693

 

Number of stillbirths, N

53,504

10,115

9490

9394

8746

8131

7628

 

Number of ToPFA, N

4018

644

610

674

613

714

763

 

NTD related infant deaths, n (%)d

2088 (2.8)

315 (2.3)a

315 (2.4)a

391 (3.1)bc

338 (2.9)b

390 (3.4)c

339 (3.2)bc

 

NTD related stillbirth, n (%)d

1352 (2.5)

261 (2.6)

220 (2.3)

261 (2.8)

200 (2.3)

231 (2.8)

179 (2.3)

 

NTD related ToPFA, n (%)d

471 (11.7)

70 (10.9)a

47 (7.7)a

57 (8.5)a

64 (10.4)a

112 (15.7)b

122 (16.0)b

 

IMR (per 10,000 live births)

95.3

101.5

99.6

96.9

90.3

91.9

90.3

−11.0

NTD specific IMR (per 10,000 live births)

2.70

2.33a

2.36a

2.97b

2.60ab

3.11b

2.86ab

26.1

Stillbirth rate (per 10,000 live births and stillbirths)

68.7

74.3

70.5

70.9

66.9

64.5

64.0

−16.0

NTD specific stillbirth rate

(per 10,000 live births and stillbirths)

1.74

1.92

1.65

1.97

1.53

1.83

1.50

−11.8

TOPFA rate (per 10,000 live births)

5.2

4.8

4.6

5.1

4.7

5.7

6.4

33.3

NTD specific ToPFA rate (per 10,000 live births)

0.61

0.52a

0.35a

0.43a

0.49a

0.89b

1.03b

100.0

  1. NTD Neural tube defect, ToPFA Termination of pregnancy for fetal anomaly, IMR Infant mortality rate
  2. a,b,cDifferent letters are significant in the same row, p < 0.05
  3. dProportion of NTD related death numbers to total numbers of specific deaths of relevant years