The effect of inbreeding on early childhood mortality: Twelve generations of an Amish settlement

From: Demography | Date: May 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

An unresolved issue in research on child survival is the extent to which familial mortality risk in infancy is due to biological influences net of sociodemographic and economic factors. We examine the effect of consanguinity on early childhood mortality in an Old Order Amish settlement by using the inbreeding coefficient, an explicit measure of the degree of relatedness in one's ancestry. Inbreeding has a net positive effect on neonatal and postneonatal deaths. We find social, demographic, and population-based sociocultural explanations for this effect among the Amish population, which is ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

SURVIVOR BONDS: HELPING To HEDGE MORTALITY RISK.
; ...problems facing annuity providers is mortality risk, the risk of underestimating mortality...issuers of annuities to hedge aggregate mortality risk by introducing a new type of bond...inflation risk is a much greater risk than mortality risk in aggregate. Furthermore, governments...
Killing the law of large numbers: mortality risk premiums and the Sharpe Ratio.
; ...pricing methodology under aggregate mortality risk. INTRODUCTION AND MOTIVATION A basic...assumption when pricing insurance is that mortality risk is completely diversifiable and therefore...portfolio is sufficient to eliminate mortality risk from the pricing and valuation ...
The effect of temperature on mortality: risk varies by region. (EH Update).(Brief Article)
; ...heat is more likely to increase mortality risk the North, while excessive cold is more likely to increase mortality risk in the South. The study appears...relationship between temperature and mortality risk from cardiovascular, respiratory...
Depression After AMI Increases Mortality Risk.(acute myocardial infarction)
; ...depression (Beck score lower than 10) on mortality risk after AMI. In a prospective cohort...Beck scores lower than 10. The latter mortality risk was higher than that in patients without...Beck inventory testing may increase mortality risk following AMI. Mortality risk ...
Drug treatment mismatched in HF.(CLINICAL CAPSULES)(Brief Article)
; ...treatment in relation to predicted 1-year mortality risk, using data from a study of 1,418 heart-failu...adrenoreceptor antagonists decreased as mortality risk increased, the investigators said (JAMA 2005;294:1240-7). The mismatch between mortality risk and drug prescriptions ...
SURVIVAL FACTORS OF NEWBORNS WITH RESPIRATORY FAILURE
; ...scored by Berlin Score System with small mortality risk defined at 18 points, moderate risk...weight is not a reliable indicator of mortality risk that it does not have a prognostic...considerably important parameter of mortality risk of a newborn with respiratory failure...
Advisors counseled to assess clients' mortality risk. (FINANCIAL PLANNING).(Brief Article)
; ...says. The basic idea is to look at mortality risk from a portfolio perspective, he says...recommendation by posting a guide to mortality risk on the Dalbar Web site, at http://www...says. He emphasizes that tolerance for mortality risk varies from client to client, just...
The political economy of government-issued longevity bonds.
; ...supply in the presence of aggregate mortality risk. We provide new calculations suggesting a 5 percent chance that aggregate mortality risk could ex post raise annuity costs for...range. While we suspect that aggregate mortality risk does exert some upward pressure on...
Predicting mortality risk in patients undergoing bariatric surgery.(Point-of-Care Guides)
; ...treat = 77). (2) The overall mortality risk within 90 days of surgery is 0.5 percent. (3) However, the mortality risk varies depending on risk factors...variables that predict postoperative mortality risk: body mass index (BMI), male...
Risk predictions can guide Alzheimer's treatment: large study of cost and mortality suggests that more emphasis should be placed on palliative care.(care and treatment)
; ...The researchers developed a mortality risk index based on factors such...stratified patients by the mortality risk and calculated their monthly...nonphysician medical care. 'At a mortality risk score high enough to correctly...