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= Paid-up subscribersBarclay C. Mortality risk highest on the day of birth — unless you live till your nineties
Mortality risk highest on the day of birth — unless you live till your nineties
25 Jul 2014
The risk of a baby in the UK dying on the first day of life is higher than the average daily risk of death until the 92nd year, a study in the BJOG has shown. The study from Nottingham looked at the risk of death on the day of birth, measured in MicroMorts, and compared this with risks at other ages and for a variety of activities. A MicroMort is a figure expressed as the number of one in a million chances of death associated with an activity or event.
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