Table 5

Multivariate regression analysis for mortality for 1037 hospitalised neonates in Eritrea, 2006

	OR	SE	95% CI	p Value
Gestation age (weeks)	0.70	0.05	0.6 to 0.82	<0.01*
Days of life at admission	1.00	0.02	0.95 to 1.05	0.96
Birth weight (kg)
≤2	0.29	0.24	0.06 to 1.48	0.14
>2 to ≤2.5	0.60	0.44	0.15 to 2.51	0.49
>2.5 to ≤3.0	1.17	0.59	0.43 to 3.17	0.76
>3	0.91	0.45	0.34 to 2.42	0.86
Apgar score (1 min)	0.34	0.11	0.18 to 0.66	<0.01*
Female gender	0.93	0.24	0.56 to 1.52	0.77
Cesarian section	0.49	0.19	0.23 to 1.05	0.07
Small for gestational age	3.22	1.91	1.0 to 10.3	0.04*
Maternal age	0.97	0.22	0.93 to 1.0	0.35
Hospital birth	1.06	0.36	0.55 to 2.1	0.85
Hypothermia	2.10	0.85	1.0 to 4.7	0.04*
Pneumonia	4.50	1.52	2.3 to 8.7	<0.01*
Hypothermia and pneumonia	2.42	1.17	0.93 to 6.27	0.06

Regression analysis demonstrated that lower gestational age, lower first minute Apgar score, small for gestational age at birth and the presence of hypothermia or pneumonia were associated with an increased likelihood of death (*p≤0.05, significant).