Effect of any iron-folic acid (IFA) supplements, number of supplements used, timing of start of supplements and timing of start with number of supplements used on early neonatal mortality determined by multivariate analysis in Nepal and Pakistan.

<p>927 missing values were excluded from the pooled NDHS analysis and 696 missing values were excluded from the pooled PDHS analysis. Further, we excluded 416 and 1489 cases with implausible values of IFA supplements consumed from the analysis of number of IFA supplements used in NDHS and PDHS respectively.</p><p>*Both models were adjusted for region/province and area of residence, maternal marital status, maternal level of attained education, maternal occupation, paternal level of attained education, paternal occupation, pooled household wealth index, maternal age at childbirth, child's sex, a combined variable birth rank and birth interval, maternal desire for the pregnancy, maternal perceived birth size, timing of initiation of breastfeeding, place of delivery, a combined variable for mode of delivery with delivery assistance, duration of recall period, year of birth of the child and the average cluster coverage of Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine.</p><p>aHR: Adjusted Hazard Ratio.</p><p>CI: Confidence Interval.</p><p>NDHS: Nepal Demographic and Health Survey.</p><p>PDHS: Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey.</p><p>Effect of any iron-folic acid (IFA) supplements, number of supplements used, timing of start of supplements and timing of start with number of supplements used on early neonatal mortality determined by multivariate analysis in Nepal and Pakistan.