Association of Low Birth Weight Infants and Maternal Sociodemographic Status in Tuzla Canton during 1992–1995 War Period in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Table 1

Number of Low birth weight (LBW) infants according to gestational age, stillbirths, early neonatal mortality, and total perinatal mortality Low birth weight (LBW) infants at University Clinical Center Department for Gynecology and Obstetrics in the prewar (1988–1991), war (1992–1995), and postwar (1996–2009) period.

Group of Newborns with LBW	No. of newborns with LBW
	Prewar; (𝑛=851/23194)	𝑃^∗	War; (𝑛=1373/18302)
Gestational age; (weeks):
<37	387 (15, 0%)	.0001	542 (23, 8%)
37–42	375 (1, 8%)	.0001	705 (4, 5%)
>42	89 (16, 7%)	.0001	126 (31, 8%)
Stillborns†	96 (5.1‰)	.04	92 (5.0‰)
Early neonatal deaths†	49 (2.1‰)	.0001	107 (5.8‰)
Perinatal death†	145 (6.2‰)	.0001	199 (10.8‰)
∗PI	1.8		1.7

^∗𝜒²1 test.
†The number in the parentheses is the number of stillborns per 1000 total births.
∗PI ponderal index (PI = weight (in g)/length (in cm)3).