Table 4.

Cause-specific mortality by treatment group

	Placebo (person-years=9762.4)		Iron and folic acid (person-years=9190.8)			Iron and folic acid with zinc (person-years=10 075.7)
	Deaths	Rate/1000 person-years	Deaths	Rate/1000 person-years	HR (95% CI)	Deaths	Rate/1000 person-years	HR (95% CI)
Acute lower respiratory illness	29	2.97	24	2.61	0.88 (0.50−1.46)	24	2.38	0.80 (0.45−1.34)
Diarrhoea	21	2.15	24	2.61	1.21 (0.66−2.11)	29	2.88	1.34 (0.74−2.28)
Dysentery	12	1.23	11	1.20	0.98 (0.42−2.14)	9	0.89	0.72 (0.30−1.68)
Malnutrition	9	0.92	9	0.98	1.10 (0.46−2.81)	8	0.79	0.86 (0.37−2.38)
Sudden infant death syndrome	10	1.02	7	0.76	0.75 (0.25−1.69)	4	0.40	0.39 (0.11−1.08)
Injuries	5	0.51	1	0.11	0.22 (0.02−1.76)	6	0.60	1.18 (0.35−3.71)
Other infections*	3	0.31	10	1.11	3.58 (1.05−13.52)	4	0.40	1.29 (0.28−5.62)
Other†	0	..	5	0.44	..	0	..	..
Uncertain or missing	26	2.66	21	2.28	0.86	35	3.47	1.30

^*Sepsis (14), hepatitis (1), meningitis (1), and gastrointestinal infections (1).

^†Premature birth (1), congenital heart defects (1), rabies (1), retinoblastoma (1), and other miscellaneous (1).