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TABLE 2—

Cause-Specific Infant Mortality Rates Among Native Hawaiians and Whites: Hawai’i, 2002–2009

	Deaths
Underlying Cause of Death^a	Native Hawaiians, No. (No./100 000 Live Births)	Whites, No. (No./100 000 Live Births)	RR (95% CI)	Rate Difference (95% CI)	Excess Infant Deaths,^b %
Preterm related^c	133 (325.0)	45 (133.6)	2.4 (1.7, 3.4)	191.4 (123.8, 259.1)	43.9
Congenital anomalies^d	27 (66.0)	25 (74.2)	0.9 (0.5, 1.5)	–8.2 (–46.5, 30.1)	–1.9
Sudden unexpected infant death^e	58 (141.8)	16 (47.5)	3.0 (1.7, 5.2)	94.2 (51.0, 137.5)	21.6
Injury^f	16 (39.1)	5 (14.8)	2.6 (1.0, 7.2)	24.3 (1.1, 47.4)	5.6
Infection^g	12 (29.3)	…	…	…	…

Note. CI = confidence interval; RR = rate ratio. Ellipsis indicates number too small to report (< 5).

^{^a}

According to International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD-10) categories.¹⁹

^{^b}

Calculated as the cause-specific rate difference divided by the total rate difference.

^{^c}

According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention definition: gestational age < 37 weeks and underlying cause-of-death ICD-10 code of K550, P000, P010, P011, P015, P020, P021, P027, P070–P073, P102, P220–229, P250–279, P280, P281, P360–369, P520–523, or P77.^25,26

^{^d}

ICD-10 codes Q00–Q99.

^{^e}

ICD-10 codes R95, R99, and W75.

^{^f}

ICD-10 codes V01–W74 and W76–Y36.

^{^g}

ICD-10 codes A00–B99, G00, G03, and J00–J42.