Discovering Subgroups of Children With High Mortality in Urban Guinea-Bissau: Exploratory and Validation Cohort Study

Andreas Rieckmann   ¹ , PhD ;   Sebastian Nielsen   ^{2, 3} , PhD ;   Piotr Dworzynski   ⁴ , PhD ;   Heresh Amini   ^{5, 6} , PhD ;   Søren Wengel Mogensen   ⁷ , PhD ;   Isaquel Bartolomeu Silva   ^{2, 3} , MSc ;   Angela Y Chang   ^{8, 9} , ScD ;   Onyebuchi A Arah   ^{10, 11, 12} , MD, PhD ;   Wojciech Samek   ^{13, 14, 15} , Dr rer nat ;   Naja Hulvej Rod   ¹ , PhD, DMSc ;   Claus Thorn Ekstrøm   ¹⁶ , PhD ;   Christine Stabell Benn   ^{2, 3, 8} , MD, PhD, DMSc ;   Peter Aaby   ^{2, 3} , DMSc ;   Ane Bærent Fisker   ^{2, 3} , MD, PhD

¹ Section of Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

² Bandim Health Project, INDEPTH Network, Bissau, Guinea-Bissau

³ Bandim Health Project, Research unit Odense Patient Data Explorative Network (OPEN), Department of Clinical Research, Odense University Hospital and University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

⁴ Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

⁵ Department of Environmental Medicine and Climate Science, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States

⁶ Institute for Climate Change, Environmental Health, and Exposomics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States

⁷ Department of Automatic Control, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

⁸ Danish Institute for Advanced Study, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

⁹ The Interdisciplinary Centre on Population Dynamics, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

¹⁰ Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States

¹¹ Department of Statistics and Data Science, College of Letters and Science, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States

¹² Research Unit for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark

¹³ Department of Artificial Intelligence, Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Berlin, Germany

¹⁴ Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

¹⁵ Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data, Berlin, Germany

¹⁶ Section of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark