Comparison of mortality and survival without major morbidities of very preterm infants with very low birth weight from Japan and Brazil.
Caroline Kaori TomoOlukunmi Omobolanle BalogunJosy DavidsonRuth GuinsburgMaria Fernanda Branco de AlmeidaJose Maria de Andrade LopesMarina Carvalho de Moraes BarrosKenji TakeharaMasashi MikamiTetsuya IsayamaAi HoshinoRintaro MoriMasashi MizuguchiPublished in: Revista paulista de pediatria : orgao oficial da Sociedade de Pediatria de Sao Paulo (2022)
Very premature and very low birth weight infants from Brazil had significantly higher odds for mortality and lower odds for survival without major morbidities in comparison to those from Japan. Additionally, we identified the factors that increased the odds of in-hospital neonatal death in Brazil, most of which was related to LOS.