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TABLE 121. Deathsa of Infants with Cleft Palate and Cleft Lip as Underlying or Associated Cause or
as Minor Anomaly in 15 Projects.
Project
Total Underlying cause Associated cause Minor anomaly
No. Rate No. Rtate No. Rate No. Rate
Total ........................... 167 35.2 60 13.9 72 15.2 29 6.1
ARGENTINA
Chaco Province ................ 12 08.2 8 45.5 3 17.0 1 5.7
San Juan Province ............. 17 72.8 12 51.1 3 12.8 2 8.6
BOLIVIA project ................ 8 21.3 4 10.6 .t 10.6 - -
BRAZIL
Recife ........................ 7 23.0 3 9.9 3 9.9 1 3.3
Ribeirio Preto ................. 4 21.9 2 11.0 2 11.0 - -
Sdo Paulo ........ ............ 24 41.3 7 12.0 9 15.5 8 13.8
CANADA
Sherbrooke .................... 3 17.7 I 5.9 2 11.8 - -
CHILE project .................. 18 41.3 7 16.1 8 18..I 3 6.9
COLOMBIA
Cali .......................... 4 19.0 2 9.5 2 9.5 - -
Cartagena ..................... 7 39.1 2 11.2 5 27.9 - -
Medellin ...................... 14 72.2 4 20.6 10 51.5
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EL SALVADOR project ......... 14 45.1 6 19.3 5 16.1 3 9.7
JAMAICA
Kingston-St. Andrew ............ 4 9.8 2 .1.9 i 2.. 1 2.4
MEXICO
Monterrey.................. 17 32.1 3 5.7 11 20.8 3 5.7
UNITE) STATES
California project .............. .1 31.3 3 0.7 .1 8.9 7 15.6
RItates per 100,000 live hirths.
causes (72) than as underlying causes (661. FIa. 106. Mortality of Infants with Cleft Palate
theycon- antd Cleft Lip as Unde~rlying or ,\. otiatt'd Cause
or as Minor Anomaly in 5 iProjuets.
This would indicate that although they con-
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outcome some other mEa
tributed to the fatal
disease or condition was mnore often rcspon- P 0 L Bo So
sible for the train of events leading to death I I
and therefore was assigned as the underly- L JunN-VIN,
ing cause. In infants in whomi these condi- cEAo m -..
tions were the underlying or assoeiate(l ItSIIYADOI PIOI _,
causes of death the anomaly frequently $ ...­
caused aspiration of food and lack of ad- cauIuIz
equate intake. Comparisons with reports "(111111,111Y
giving the incidence of cleft l)alate and cleft 11011
lip are not available since these anomalies ilio Pik0
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are rarely fatal.
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The distribution of deceased infants with salml
cleft palate and cleft lip by age of mother E3GSlON.1.aNtw
did not. show an excess in older mothers iUNDEtRLYNO MASSOCIAuID -IMNO5
(Table 122). When the data were combined
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