Paternal Age and Child Death: The Stillbirth Case |
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Authors: | Jitka Rychtaříková Catherine Gourbin Guillaume Wunsch |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Demography and Geodemography, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Albertov 6, 128 43 Praha, Czech Republic;(2) Institute of Demography, University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, 1/17 Place Montesquieu, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium |
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Abstract: | Previous research has shown an association between paternal age and neonatal mortality controlling for age of mother and other confounding factors. As this association is possibly of a biological nature, one would also expect to find a significant relationship between paternal age and fœtal mortality,stillbirth in particular. The present research is based on a Czech individual data set for the period 1986–1990. The risk of stillbirth is examined using logistic regression, taking account of both parental ages, sex of the fœtus, birth order, prematurity, and education of parents. It is shown that, in this data set, there is a significant relation between age of father and risk of stillbirth. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. |
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Keywords: | paternal age prematurity maternal age neonatal mortality stillbirth |
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