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Table 1 Infant deaths (< 1 year) in Tohoku and Japan, 2002–2012, by cause and gender

From: Infant, neonatal, and postneonatal mortality trends in a disaster region and in Japan, 2002–2012: a multi-attribute compositional study

Japan

Tohoku

Males

Females

Males

Females

Rank

Category (ICD)

Freq.

%

Rank

Category (ICD)

Freq.

%

Rank

Category (ICD)

Freq.

%

Rank

Category (ICD)

Freq.

%

1

SIDS

1068

6.4

1

Trisomy 18

986

6.9

1

SIDS

61

7.9

1

SIDS

38

5.8

2

Ill-defined and unknown cause of mortality

742

4.4

2

SIDS

740

5.2

2

Unspecified effects of drowning and nonfatal submersion

39

5.0

2

Trisomy 18

32

4.9

3

Trisomy 18

639

3.8

3

Ill-defined and unknown cause of mortality

512

3.6

3

Extremely low birth weight newborn

23

3.0

3

Severe neonatal asphyxia

19

2.9

4

Congenital hypoplasia and dysplasia of the lung

494

2.9

4

Congenital hypoplasia and dysplasia of the lung

360

2.5

4

Asphyxia

23

3.0

4

Congenital hypoplasia and dysplasia of the lung

19

2.9

5

Hypoplastic left heart syndrome

404

2.4

5

Extremely low birth weight newborn

346

2.4

5

Trisomy 18

22

2.8

5

Ill-defined and unknown cause of mortality

19

2.9

 

All other

13,460

80.1

 

All other

11,270

79.3

 

All other

609

78.4

 

All other

527

80.6

 

Total

16,807

100.0

 

Total

14,214

100.0

 

Total

777

100

 

Total

654

100.0

  1. Note. ICD International Classification of Diseases, SIDS sudden infant death syndrome