ASSOCIATION OF NEONATAL MORTALITY WITH BIRTH WEIGHT

730 low birth weight (LBW) newborns and 1460 control subjects were selected from 6250 newborns born and compared for mortality in the first seven and up to 28 days of life (early neonatal period). In this study, all low birth weight neonates are divided into four birth weight subgroups, and mortality within the first seven (early neonatal mortality) and up to twenty-eight days of life (neonatal mortality) is examined in both groups. Part of the results is as follows: 1. Pre-term babies account for 5.6% of all newborns, 2. 14.3% of LBW newborns die within the first seven days of life, 3. 75% of newborns who weigh very much (less than 1500 g) die within the first seven days of life, 4. Newborns with a low birth weight have a mortality twenty-four times higher than children with a normal birth weight in the first and fourth week of life, 5. Infant mortality in this study was 18 per thousand. Keywords: early neonatal mortality, newborns, low birth weigh