Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
. 2018 Jul;31(13):1748-1755.
doi: 10.1080/14767058.2017.1326901. Epub 2017 May 22.

Trends and characteristics of fetal and neonatal mortality due to congenital anomalies, Colombia 1999-2008

Claudia Patricia Roncancio  1 , Sandra Patricia Misnaza  1 , Isabel Cristina Peña  2 , Franklyn Edwin Prieto  3 , Michael J Cannon  4 , Diana Valencia  4
Affiliations

Trends and characteristics of fetal and neonatal mortality due to congenital anomalies, Colombia 1999-2008

Claudia Patricia Roncancio et al. J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med. 2018 Jul.

Abstract

Objective: To describe fetal and neonatal mortality due to congenital anomalies in Colombia.

Methods: We analyzed all fetal and neonatal deaths due to a congenital anomaly registered with the Colombian vital statistics system during 1999-2008.

Results: The registry included 213,293 fetal deaths and 7,216,727 live births. Of the live births, 77,738 (1.08%) resulted in neonatal deaths. Congenital anomalies were responsible for 7321 fetal deaths (3.4% of all fetal deaths) and 15,040 neonatal deaths (19.3% of all neonatal deaths). The fetal mortality rate due to congenital anomalies was 9.9 per 10,000 live births and fetal deaths; the neonatal mortality rate due to congenital anomalies was 20.8 per 10,000 live births. Mortality rates due to congenital anomalies remained relatively stable during the study period. The most frequent fatal congenital anomalies were congenital heart defects (32.0%), central nervous system anomalies (15.8%), and chromosomal anomalies (8.0%). Risk factors for fetal and neonatal death included: male or undetermined sex, living in villages or rural areas, mother's age >35 years, low and very low birthweight, and <28 weeks gestation at birth.

Conclusions: Congenital anomalies are an important cause of fetal and neonatal deaths in Colombia, but many of the anomalies may be preventable or treatable.

Keywords: Colombia; Fetal mortality; congenital anomalies; infant mortality; neonatal mortality; vital statistics.

PubMed Disclaimer

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
Fetal and neonatal mortality trends by year of death, Colombia, 1999–2008.
See this image and copyright information in PMC

References

    1. World Health Organization. Congenital anomalies. 2015 [Internet]. Available from: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs370/en/
    1. Rosano A, Botto LD, Botting B, et al. Infant mortality and congenital anomalies from 1950 to 1994: an international perspective. J Epidemiol Commun Health. 2000;54:660–666. - PMC - PubMed
    1. World Health Organization. Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 [Internet] [last accessed 5 Nov 2011]; Available from: http://www.who.int/pmnch/about/about_mdgs/en/
    1. Organización Panamericana de la Salud. Datos de Mortalidad para Salud en las Américas 2012. 2012 [Internet]. Available from: http://www.paho.org/hq/index.php?-option=com_content&view=article&id=560....
    1. Baltaxe E, Zarante I. Prevalence of congenital heart disease in 44,985 newborns in Colombia. Archiv Cardiol Mex. 2006;76:263–268. - PubMed

LinkOut - more resources