Excerpt from Low Birthweight in Minority and High-Risk Women: Patient Outcomes Research Team (Port) Final Report Prematurity and low birthweight are major risk factors for infant mortality. Low birthweight newborns are those born weighing less than grams, either because they are premature (less than 37 weeks' gestational age) or growth restricted prior to birth (birthweight less than the loth percentile for gestational age). Nearly 70 percent of all infant mortality is associated with low birthweight, as are about one ...
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Excerpt from Low Birthweight in Minority and High-Risk Women: Patient Outcomes Research Team (Port) Final Report Prematurity and low birthweight are major risk factors for infant mortality. Low birthweight newborns are those born weighing less than grams, either because they are premature (less than 37 weeks' gestational age) or growth restricted prior to birth (birthweight less than the loth percentile for gestational age). Nearly 70 percent of all infant mortality is associated with low birthweight, as are about one-third of all handicapping conditions. Some minority women, and especially African American (black) women, have substantially higher rates of low birthweight babies than do white women. By the early 1990s, after decades of improvement in overall infant mortality rates in the u.s., this country was still seeing no improvement in the disparity between the rates of infant mortality in African Americans compared to whites. While there was a steady decline in the infant mortality rates for all ethnicities, the rates for African Americans declined more slowly and the gap between black and white infant mortality rates actually widened. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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