Sentences with phrase «black infants compared»

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Because black infants have consistently had the lowest rates of breastfeeding initiation and duration compared to other groups, the state - level estimates presented are limited to black and white infants (2).

According to the Ross Mothers» Survey, conducted by the division of Abbott Laboratories that makes infant formula, more than 37 percent of black women last year chose to breastfeed at birth compared with 23 percent in 1990.

Differences in the prevalence of supine positioning and other sleep - environment conditions among racial and ethnic populations might contribute to these disparities.17 The prevalence of supine positioning in 2010 among white infants was 75 %, compared with 53 % among black infants (Fig 5).

Among infants born during 2010 — 2013, 64.3 % of non-Hispanic black infants started breastfeeding, compared to 81.5 % of white infants, a gap of 17.2 percentage points.

In a 2010 study, cognitive psychologists Melissa Libertus and Elizabeth Brannon, then both at Duke University, found that infants gazed longer at images of black circles when the number of circles changed, compared with when the quantity was always the same, as long as the ratio between the number of circles was always at least 2 - to - 1.

In the land that pioneered heart transplants, the death rate of black infants is still 53 per 1000 live births, compared with 7 in 1000 for white infants.