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Black infants died at a rate of 10.9 deaths per 1,000 live births, the CDC said. Infant mortality rates remained relatively unchanged from 2022 to 2023, but racial and ethnic disparities still ...
Newly released data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows New Hampshire has the lowest infant mortality ...
Meanwhile, if the high infant mortality rate in the U.S. owes largely to what happens to slightly older babies, then offering more high-tech medical care at birth is unlikely to remedy the problem.
Arizona's child mortality rate in 2022 at 53.3 child deaths per 100,000 children ages 17 and younger showed little change from the 2021 rate. It was infant mortality — any death of an ...
The U.S. infant mortality rate rose 3% last year — the largest increase in two decades, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.White and Native American infants, infant boys ...
The infant mortality rate — defined as the number of babies who die before they are a year old for every 1,000 live births — also increased by a statistically significant 3 percent last year ...
The neonatal mortality rate -- infant deaths at less than 28 days of life -- also rose 3% from 3.49 per 1,000 live births in 2021 to 3.58 in 2022 and the postneonatal mortality rate -- ...
The year before, in 2021, an analysis from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that while the total number of infant deaths had increased from 2020, the mortality rate had ...