PMID- 11748817
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20020117
LR  - 20220311
IS  - 1042-0533 (Print)
IS  - 1042-0533 (Linking)
VI  - 13
IP  - 6
DP  - 2001 Nov-Dec
TI  - Consanguinity and early mortality in the Muslim populations of India and 
      Pakistan.
PG  - 777-87
AB  - Empirical information from studies conducted in Pakistan has indicated a high 
      level of offspring mortality that can be attributed to parental consanguinity 
      even when non-biological variables are controlled. However, with the exception of 
      some small and geographically restricted studies, few comparable data are 
      available on the influence of inbreeding in child survival among the Muslim 
      population of India, which numbers between 100 and 120 million. The present study 
      compares deaths during the first 5 years of life among the offspring of first 
      cousin (F = 0.0625) and non-consanguineous unions (F = 0), using data collected 
      in the 1992-1993 Indian National Family Health Survey (NFHS) and the 1990-1991 
      Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey (PDHS). The focus was on determinants of 
      mortality in live-born children to age 5 years. In both countries, bivariate 
      analyses indicated that mortality was significantly increased in the offspring of 
      first cousin unions during the neonatal and post-neonatal, total infant, and 
      under-5 year periods. The findings were confirmed by multivariate regression, 
      which incorporated control for a range of biological and demographic factors.
CI  - Copyright 2001 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
FAU - Hussain, R
AU  - Hussain R
AD  - School of Health, University of New England, Armidale, Australia. 
      rhussain@metz.une.edu.au
FAU - Bittles, A H
AU  - Bittles AH
FAU - Sullivan, S
AU  - Sullivan S
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - United States
TA  - Am J Hum Biol
JT  - American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology 
      Council
JID - 8915029
SB  - IM
MH  - Case-Control Studies
MH  - Child, Preschool
MH  - *Consanguinity
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - India
MH  - Infant
MH  - *Infant Mortality
MH  - Infant, Newborn
MH  - *Islam
MH  - Logistic Models
MH  - Male
MH  - Multivariate Analysis
MH  - Pakistan
MH  - Socioeconomic Factors
EDAT- 2001/12/19 10:00
MHDA- 2002/01/18 10:01
CRDT- 2001/12/19 10:00
PHST- 2001/12/19 10:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2002/01/18 10:01 [medline]
PHST- 2001/12/19 10:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1002/ajhb.1124 [pii]
AID - 10.1002/ajhb.1124 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Am J Hum Biol. 2001 Nov-Dec;13(6):777-87. doi: 10.1002/ajhb.1124.