Felipe Camilo Santiago Veloso1, Liliana de Meira Lins Kassar2, Michelle Jacintha Cavalcante Oliveira3, Telmo Henrique Barbosa de Lima4, Nassib Bezerra Bueno5, Ricardo Queiroz Gurgel6, Samir Buainain Kassar7. 1. Universidade Estadual de Ciências da Saúde de Alagoas (UNCISAL), Curso de Medicina, Maceió, AL, Brazil. 2. Universidade Federal de Alagoas (UFAL), Faculdade de Medicina, Maceió, AL, Brazil. 3. Universidade Federal de Alagoas (UFAL), Faculdade de Medicina, Maceió, AL, Brazil; Centro Universitário Tiradentes, Curso de Medicina, Maceió, AL, Brazil. 4. Universidade Estadual de Ciências da Saúde de Alagoas (UNCISAL), Curso de Medicina, Maceió, AL, Brazil; Centro Universitário Tiradentes, Curso de Medicina, Maceió, AL, Brazil. 5. Universidade Federal de Alagoas (UFAL), Faculdade de Nutrição, Maceió, AL, Brazil. 6. Universidade Federal de Sergipe (UFS), Faculdade de Medicina, Aracaju, SE, Brazil. 7. Centro Universitário Tiradentes, Curso de Medicina, Maceió, AL, Brazil. Electronic address: samirbkr@uol.com.br.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To identify, using a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies, which risk factors are significantly associated with neonatal mortality in Brazil, and to build a comprehensive national analysis on neonatal mortality. SOURCES: This review included observational studies on neonatal mortality, performed between 2000 and 2018 in Brazilian cities. The MEDLINE, Elsevier, Cochrane, LILACS, SciELO, and OpenGrey databases were used. For the qualitative analysis, the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale was used. For the quantitative analysis, the natural logarithms of the risk measures and their confidence intervals were used, as well as the DerSimonian and Laird method as a random effects model, and the Mantel-Haenszel model for heterogeneity estimation. A confidence level of 95% was considered. SUMMARY OF FINDINGS: The qualitative analysis resulted in six studies of low and four studies of intermediate-low bias risk. The following exposure factors were significant: absence of partner, maternal age ≥35 years, male gender, multiple gestation, inadequate and absent prenatal care, presence of complications during pregnancy, congenital malformation in the assessed pregnancy, Apgar<7 at the fifth minute, low and very low birth weight, gestational age≤37 weeks, and caesarean delivery. CONCLUSION: The most significant risk factors presented in this study are modifiable, allowing aiming at a real reduction in neonatal deaths, which remain high in the country.
OBJECTIVE: To identify, using a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies, which risk factors are significantly associated with neonatal mortality in Brazil, and to build a comprehensive national analysis on neonatal mortality. SOURCES: This review included observational studies on neonatal mortality, performed between 2000 and 2018 in Brazilian cities. The MEDLINE, Elsevier, Cochrane, LILACS, SciELO, and OpenGrey databases were used. For the qualitative analysis, the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale was used. For the quantitative analysis, the natural logarithms of the risk measures and their confidence intervals were used, as well as the DerSimonian and Laird method as a random effects model, and the Mantel-Haenszel model for heterogeneity estimation. A confidence level of 95% was considered. SUMMARY OF FINDINGS: The qualitative analysis resulted in six studies of low and four studies of intermediate-low bias risk. The following exposure factors were significant: absence of partner, maternal age ≥35 years, male gender, multiple gestation, inadequate and absent prenatal care, presence of complications during pregnancy, congenital malformation in the assessed pregnancy, Apgar<7 at the fifth minute, low and very low birth weight, gestational age≤37 weeks, and caesarean delivery. CONCLUSION: The most significant risk factors presented in this study are modifiable, allowing aiming at a real reduction in neonatal deaths, which remain high in the country.
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