Infant mortality in the U.S. rose for the first time in two decades in 2022, early data shows, with four states seeing significant increases year over year. By Steven Ross Johnson | Nov. 1, 2023, at 12:39 p.m.
The report found that the overall mortality rate increased for infants born to American Indian/Alaska Native women, white women and Dominican women in 2022 while other racial and ethnic groups did not see significant increases from 2021 to 2022. Meanwhile, infants of Black women had ...
State of Health U.S. infant mortality rates 2019-2022, by leading causes State of Health Sudden unexpected infant death rates U.S. 2016-2020, by race/ethnicity and cause Recommended statistics Worldwide overview Infant mortality in the U.S. Fetal mortality in the U.S. Causes Risk factorsKey...
Infant mortality rates (IMR) represent an important evolutionary selective pressure. Given that one must survive infancy (defined here as the first year of life) to pass on one's genes, IMR were an important evolutionary filter. Historical and hunter-gatherer data reveal that IMR were universally...
In the wake of Texas' abortion ban, the state's infant death rate increased and more died of birth defects, astudy publishedMonday shows. The analysis out of Johns Hopkins University is the latest research to find higher infant mortality rates instates with abortion restrictions. ...
Among US-born preterm infants of Hispanic mothers, we analyzed the unadjusted and adjusted infant mortality rate (IMR) by country/region of origin and maternal nativity status. Study design Using linked national US birth and death certificate data (2005–2014), we examined preterm infants of Hispa...
The Dobbs decision was associated with a 7% absolute increase in overall infant mortality—equivalent to 247 excess deaths—and a 10% increase among infants with congenital anomalies, corresponding to 204 additional deaths.
A total of 5,089 infant deaths were classified as preventable and non-preventable according to the International Collaborative Effort on Infant Mortality (ICE) and the State System of Data Analysis Foundation (SEADE) methods. To investigate the factors associated with preventable of deaths, it was...
To check this, we tested the LMIC SCMs with age demographics corresponding to type 1 (typical of high-income countries, as detailed above) and type 3 (typical of low-income countries, characterized by high infant mortality) survivorship functions26. We parameterized the type 3 demography by ...
A new study shows the infant death rate in Texas went up in the wake of the state's abortion ban. The analysis published Monday out of Johns Hopkins University is the latest research to find higher infant mortality rates in states with abortion restricti