... has not improved because of an increase in premature births, health officials say. After a century of declines, the U.S. infant mortality rate barely budged between 2000 ...
... States. Some African countries have shockingly high infant mortality, with more than 150 in 1000 babies dying ... in childhood, some babies are more vulnerable than others. Between 2003 and 2005, infant mortality for babies born to professional parents ...
... is an important and potentially modifiable risk factor for infant mortality," concluded the study's lead author ... for the complications of premature births as well as reducing infant mortality rates, particularly in black communities ...
Iron-folic acid supplements, taken with anti-malarial drugs during pregnancy could reduce 25 per cent of early infant mortality.
... heart rate monitors lowers the rate of infant mortality. There have been a handful of small studies conducted ... had EFM. EFM was associated with significantly lower infant mortality (adjusted RR 0.75 ...
... medical records would substantially reduce infant mortality in the U.S., according to a study forthcoming in the Journal ... allowed the researchers to control for other factors that may influence infant mortality, such as a county's socioeconomic status. Each ...
... ratios (AHR) were generated to assess the association between infant mortality in the first pregnancy and stillbirth in the second ... investigator said: "Our findings show that there are large disparities in infant mortality rates between white and black women ...
... . But one USC Dornsife scientist is working to unravel the mystery behind the leading genetic cause of infant mortality, uncovering how Spinal Muscular Atrophy ...
Canada would rank higher on international child health indexes if unstandardized measurements of infant mortality rates in other countries didn't skew the calculations, a new study says.
... racial and ethnic groups, a government report says.Infant mortality in the U.S. has declined 12% since 2005 after holding steady for many years, according to data released ...
Countries in which girls are commonly married before the age of 18 have significantly higher rates of maternal and infant mortality, report researchers.
... by 2015. This is seen as crucial to reducing poverty and infant mortality. But, as the research shows, the MDG definition is too narrow and can be misleading. If the definition is used, it shows that over 90 ...
... , the researchers found. Furthermore, this black disadvantage in neonatal infant mortality widened with an increase in the body mass ... of nonobese women. The black-white disparity in infant mortality persisted even when the researchers adjusted ...
... predate attendance of children at schools, with chimpanzee infant mortality rates cycling in phase with rates ... food availability, when chimpanzees are most gregarious. However, infant mortality also cycled on a roughly three year ...
... of social connectivity on disease cycling may long predate attendance of children at schools, with chimpanzee infant mortality rates cycling in phase with rates ...
