Perinatal mortality in different ethnic groups.
We have analysed the cause of perinatal deaths in four hospitals in the North West Thames region over a six year period commencing January 1980. The Pakistani population had a significantly greater perinatal mortality rate (15.7/1000 births) than the Europeans (11.3/1000 births). This was due to an increased incidence of macerated stillbirths and lethal malformations, the latter resulting from a significantly higher incidence of autosomal recessive disorders, neural tube defects, and renal malformations.
Chitty
L S
LS
Kennedy-Galton Centre for Clinical Genetics, Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow, Middlesex.
Winter
R M
RM
D002423:Cause of Death; D002490:Central Nervous System / Q000002:abnormalities; D000013:Congenital Abnormalities / Q000401:mortality; D004739:England / Q000453:epidemiology; D005006:Ethnicity; D005060:Europe / Q000208:ethnology; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000401:mortality; D006801:Humans; D007226:Infant Mortality; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007668:Kidney / Q000002:abnormalities; D009436:Neural Tube Defects / Q000401:mortality; D010154:Pakistan / Q000208:ethnology