Table 4.

Unadjusted and adjusted^a mortality by distribution of elements in infants surviving more than three hours

	N	Mortality	HR	95% CI	aHR	95% CI
Received zero of the four elements	736	40	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref
One element	12,638	324	0.46**	(0.33, 0.64)	0.51**	(0.36, 0.71)
Two elements	9783	226	0.42**	(0.30, 0.58)	0.46**	(0.33, 0.65)
Three elements	2911	50	0.31**	(0.20, 0.47)	0.34**	(0.23, 0.52)
Four elements	227	3	0.24*	(0.07, 0.76)	0.28*	(0.09, 0.89)

*p < 0.05

**p < 0.01

^acovariates (PTB, sex of infant, mother’s literacy, SES, parity and place of delivery)