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Table 4 NTD specific stilbirths, infant death, and ToPFA rates by sociodemographic and obstetric characteristics, Turkey, 2014–2019

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

Variables

Stillbirth rateh

NTD specific stillbirth

N (rate)h

IMRi

NTD specific infant deaths

N (rate)i

ToPFA

ratei

NTD specific ToPFA

N (rate)i

Regionsf

 West

64.8ab

273 (0.96)a

77.4a

576 (2.04)a

7.3a

225 (0.79)a

 South

66.4a

113 (1.12)a

93.4b

241 (2.41)b

4.2b

37 (0.37)b

 Central

63.8b

142 (1.00)a

81.6c

228 (1.62)c

6.1c

105 (0.75)a

 North

60.1c

50 (1.27)a

77.0a

62 (1.58)ac

9.6d

46 (1.17)c

 East

79.7d

774 (3.64)b

132.5d

981 (4.65)d

1.4e

58 (0.27)b

Maternal agef

  < 20 yrs

65.2a

131 (3.04)a

106.6a

104 (2.43)a

4.0a

35 (0.82)a

 20–34 yrs

6.2b

960 (1.58)b

87.9b

1534 (2.52)a

4.7b

349 (0.57)b

  ≥ 35 yrs

106.9c

260 (2.22)c

121.4c

442 (3.81)b

8.3c

87 (0.75)a

Parityg

 Nullipar

47.4a

45 (1.03)a

69.6a

60 (1.38)a

6.1

29 (0.67)a

 Multipar

67.8b

130 (1.73)b

97.4b

276 (3.69)b

6.6

93 (1.24)b

Gestational ageg

  ≥ 37 mo

16.3a

25 (0.24)a

37.5a

157 (1.49)a

0.1a

1 (0.01)a

  < 37 mo

431.0b

154 (11.26)b

512.2b

182 (13.91)b

57.3b

121 (9.25)b

Number of fetusesg

 Singleton

57.1a

169 (1.47)

76.6a

311 (2.72)a

6.3

121 (1.06)

 Twin/triplet

150.8b

6 (1.51)

408.3b

28 (7.17)b

7.7

1 (0.26)

Delivery typeg

 Vaginal

78.9a

106 (2.10)a

67.1a

69 (1.38)a

12.3a

97 (1.94)a

 Cesarean section

46.6b

69 (1.01)b

102.1b

266 (3.89)b

2.2b

25 (0.37)b

Genderf

 Male

68.3

444 (1.11)a

101.1a

818 (2.06)a

4.9

174 (0.44)a

 Female

68.2

898 (2.37)b

88.6b

1270 (3.37)b

5.1

293 (0.78)b

Birth weightg

  ≥ 2500 g

18.2a

10 (0.09)a

36.8a

148 (1.36)a

1.4a

1 (0.01)a

  < 2500 g

557.5b

169 (16.80)b

698.8b

191 (20.11)b

20.0b

121 (12.74)b

  1. NTD Neural tube defect, ToPFA Termination of pregnancy for fetal anomaly
  2. a,b,c,d,eDifferent letters in the same column are significant for each variable, p < 0.05
  3. f2014–2019 data
  4. gOnly 2019 data
  5. hin 10,000 birth
  6. iin 10,000 livebirth