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Table 3.

Cause-Specific Mortality Rates and Mortality Rate Ratios in the Neonatal Period^a

Cause of Death^b	Cause-Specific Mortality Rate per 100 Person-Years (No. of Deaths/Total Person-Years)		Cause-Specific MRR for Early BCG vs Control (95% CI)
Cause of Death^b	Early BCG	Control	Cause-Specific MRR for Early BCG vs Control (95% CI)
Infection	17 (25/137)	31 (44/135)	0.57 (.35–.93)
Noninfectious conditions	14 (17/137)	12 (14/135)	1.20 (0.58–2.49)

Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval; MRR, mortality rate ratio.

^aAnalyses were performed using Cox regression.

^bThe infection category included sepsis, respiratory infections, fever, malaria, omphalitis, and gastrointestinal infections. Noninfectious conditions included prematurity, sudden infant death syndrome, anemia, bleeding, congenital problems, kernicterus, hypoglycemia, hypothermia, and respiratory distress syndrome. The cause of death was not available for 6 deaths, 2 in the early BCG group and 4 in the control; verbal autopsies were not conducted for these deaths because the families moved before the verbal autopsy visit.