Sentences with phrase «white infants»

This has led to increases in the absolute inequality in infant mortality between black and white infants during the past three years.

As early as 2011, studies showed that white infants scanned «other - race faces» differently.

«For example, the majority of excess infant mortality was due to higher mortality rates among non-Hispanic white infants in Kentucky and Oklahoma,» explains Dr. Hirai.

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.

The results have been extraordinary: within seven years infant mortality decreased by 28 percent to its lowest in Baltimore's history, the teen birth rate decreased by 36 percent, and the disparity between black and white infant deaths decreased by almost 40 percent.

It's not mostly white infants born to unwed white mothers being raised by married white couples.

For the other leading causes of death (congenital malformations, sudden infant death syndrome and maternal complications), the rates among black and white infants decreased from 2005 to 2015, although deaths rates related to both sudden infant death syndrome and congenital malformations increased for black infants in the last year of data available for the study from 2014 to 2015.

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Progress also has stalled with respect to all other causes of infant death in recent years and, in the last year of data available for the study from 2014 to 2015, there was an increase in mortality rates for black infants compared with white infants.

A new research letter published by JAMA Pediatrics examined trends in overall and cause - specific infant mortality rates between non-Hispanic black and white infants because infant mortality is an important indicator of population health.

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.

Given that the mortality rate for black infants is more than twice that of white infants, more needs to be done to ensure that all women can give their babies the powerful life - saving, brain - boosting and health - giving benefits of breastfeeding.

For infants born between 2010 and 2013, the gap in breastfeeding initiation between black and white infants was 17.2 percentage points.

Race is a factor in SIDS death, with African American infants being twice as likely to die from it than white infants, and Native American babies are 3 times as likely to die from SIDS than white babies.

Breastfeeding has many health benefits for infants, yet there are persistent gaps in breastfeeding rates between black and white infants in the United States.

Interventions to further reduce the rate of preterm birth among black infants appear the most promising option for reducing black infant mortality and the absolute inequality between black and white infants,» the authors conclude.

The association was stronger for African - American infants than for non-Hispanic white infants, which has implications for trying to reduce disparities in infant mortality between the two groups.

The study also found that higher cigarette taxes were more effective in reducing infant mortality rates among African - American infants than non-Hispanic white infants.

Mary B. Addison was nine when a jury quickly convicted her of a crime the public was already convinced she'd committed: the murder of Alyssa Richardson, a white infant that African American Mary and her mother were babysitting.

At age 9, Mary was convicted of murdering a white infant that she and her mother were babysitting.

African American Mary was convicted of murdering a white infant when she was nine.