Rotavirus mortality in India: estimates based on a nationally representative survey of diarrhoeal deaths
Shaun K Morris, Shally Awasthi, Ajay Khera, Diego G Bassani, Gagandeep Kang, Umesh D Parashar, Rajesh Kumar, Anita Shet, Roger I Glass, Prabhat Jha & for the Million Death Study Collaborators
Volume 90, Number 10, October 2012, 720-727
Table 1. Deaths from diarrhoea – all-cause and rotavirus-attributable – detected during the study and estimated nationally, among Indian children younger than 5 years, by age, during 2005a
| Age (months) | Study findings |
National estimates, 2005a |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All-cause diarrhoea deaths (No.)b | Deaths attributable to RV (%)c | All-cause diarrhoea deaths (No.) | Deaths attributable to RV (No.)d | Mortality ratee (99% CI) | ||
| < 1 | 241 | 26.0 | 31 800 | 8 300 | 0.30 (0.22–0.67) | |
| 1–2 | 368 | 26.1 | 30 600 | 8 000 | 0.29 (0.18–0.47) | |
| 3–11 | 811 | 42.8 | 89 700 | 38 400 | 1.41(1.08–1.82) | |
| 12–23 | 634 | 44.2 | 69 500 | 30 700 | 1.12 (0.85–1.47) | |
| 24–59 | 996 | 24.9 | 111 300 | 27 700 | 1.01 (0.81–1.27) | |
| Overall | 3053 | 34.0 | 334 000 | 113 000 | 4.14 (3.14–5.68) | |
CI, confidence interval; MDS, Million Death Study; RV, rotavirus infection.
a Data are corrected on the basis of United Nations estimates of live births (n = 27 311 155) and deaths in India during 2005.
b Data are from Million Death Study, 2001–2003. Values do not sum to the overall value because the month of death was missing for three children.
c Data are from the Indian Rotavirus Strain Surveillance Network, 2005–2007. Overall value is weighted to the age distribution in the MDS.
d Cumulative proportion of all rotavirus-attributable deaths is as follows: < 1 month, 8%; < 2 months, 14%; < 12 months, 47%; < 24 months, 75%; < 60 months, 100%. The overall value is rounded to the nearest 1000.
e Deaths from rotavirus diarrhoea per 1000 live births.