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BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth BioMed Central Research article Open Access A population-based study of effect of multiple birth on infant mortality in Nigeria 1 2 1 Olalekan A Uthman* , Mubashir B Uthman and Ismail Yahaya Address: 1Center for Evidence-Based Global Health, Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria and 2Department of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria Email: Olalekan A Uthman* - uthlekan@; Mubashir B Uthman - uthmanmb@; Ismail Yahaya - illyahaya@ * Corresponding author Published: 10 September 2008 Received: 16 April 2008 Accepted: 10 September 2008 BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2008, 8:41 doi:10.1186/1471-2393-8-41 This article is available from: /1471-2393/8/41 © 2008 Uthman et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Multi-foetal pregnancies and multiple births including twins and higher order multiples births such as triplets and quadruplets are high-risk pregnancy and birth. These high-risk groups contribute to the higher rate of childhood mortality especially during early period of life. Methods: We examined the relationship between multiple births and inf