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Table 4 Causes of death by intervention and age at death

From: Neonatal vitamin A supplementation associated with a cluster of deaths and poor early growth in a randomised trial among low-birth-weight boys of vitamin A versus oral polio vaccine at birth

 

Deaths within first 2 months

Deaths after 2 months of age

 

VAS

OPV

VAS

OPV

Resp. diseases

5

1

2

1

Diarrhoea

2

0

0

0

Sepsis

1

0

0

1

Kernicterus

0

1

0

0

Chickenpox

0

0

0

1

Unknown*

3

2

1

3

Total

11

4

3

6

  1. *Three families moved before autopsy, and a diagnosis could not be established in six children.
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BMC Pediatrics

ISSN: 1471-2431

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