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Table 1 Meta-analyzed relative risk of under-five mortality, comparing children of high fertility mothers to low fertility mothers, stratified by country-level total fertility rate

From: Residual confounding explains the association between high parity and child mortality

 

Birth order 1

Birth order 2

Birth order 3

Birth order 4

TFR 2-<4 (n=7)

2.53 (1.89, 3.38)

2.48 (1.94, 3.17)

2.81 (1.98, 3.99)

1.91 (1.27, 2.86)

TFR 4-<6 (n=14)

1.87 (1.63, 2.14)

1.94 (1.64, 2.29)

1.88 (1.57, 2.26)

1.58 (1.22, 2.06)

TFR 6-<8 (n=22)

1.28 (1.16, 1.42)

1.40 (1.23, 1.59)

1.34 (1.20, 1.49)

1.19 (1.06, 1.35)

  1. TFR = total fertility rate
  2. n represents number of countries that belonged to the specified TFR level
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