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INFANT DEATHS BY CAUSE OF DEATH
NORTH CAROLINA, 1999
| Cause of Death | ICD-10 Codes |
White | Other Races |
Total |
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| Congenital Malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities |
Q00 - Q99 |
139 | 76 | 215 |
| Prematurity and Low Birth Weight |
P05 - P07 |
80 | 118 | 198 |
| Respiratory Distress and other Respiratory conditions |
P22 - P28 |
47 | 45 | 92 |
| Infections and Parasitic Diseases |
A00 - B99; |
26 | 31 | 57 |
| Other conditions originating in the perinatal period |
P00 - P04; |
127 | 111 | 238 |
| Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) |
R95 |
59 | 39 | 98 |
| Unintentional Injuries (Accidents) |
V01 - X59; |
16 | 10 | 26 |
| Homicide (Assault) |
X85 - Y09; |
5 | 5 | 10 |
| Other Ill-Defined and unknown causes of death |
R96 - R99 |
9 | 8 | 17 |
| All Other Causes of Death |
Residual |
44 | 39 | 83 |
| Total |
ALL |
552 | 482 | 1034 |
Tables 5, 6, and 7 show counts of infant deaths by Cause of Death under the 10th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases, implemented in the United States for the first time in 1999. These groupings are not strictly comparable with previously published data under the 9th Revision.
Source: State Center for Health Statistics
NC Department of Health and Human Services
Revised 25 October 2000