Is a higher altitude associated with shorter survival among at-risk neonates?

• Iván Dueñas-Espín ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: igduenase@puce.edu.ec

  Affiliation Instituto de Salud Pública, Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE), Quito, Ecuador

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6639-727X

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• Luciana Armijos-Acurio,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Instituto de Salud Pública, Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE), Quito, Ecuador

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• Estefanía Espín,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Escuela de Medicina, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de las Américas (UDLA) and Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

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• Fernando Espinosa-Herrera,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Escuela de Medicina, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de las Américas (UDLA) and Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador, Sociedad Ecuatoriana de Medicina Familiar (SEMF), Quito, Ecuador

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• Ruth Jimbo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Instituto de Salud Pública, Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE), Quito, Ecuador

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• Ángela León-Cáceres,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Instituto de Salud Pública, Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE), Quito, Ecuador, Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, Tropical Herping, Quito, Ecuador

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• Raif Nasre-Nasser,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciências Fisiológicas, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG), Rio Grande, Brasil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8350-1008

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• María F. Rivadeneira,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Instituto de Salud Pública, Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE), Quito, Ecuador

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• David Rojas-Rueda,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5854-2484

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• Laura Ruiz-Cedeño,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Postgrado de Pediatría, Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE), Quito, Ecuador

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• Betzabé Tello,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Instituto de Salud Pública, Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE), Quito, Ecuador

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• Daniela Vásconez-Romero

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Postgrado de Pediatría, Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE), Quito, Ecuador

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