Each Missing Week Of Pregnancy Increases The Risk Of Infant Death. Part 2 of 3

The study, published in the June issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology, looked at US matter on infant mortality from 1995 to 2006. It found that 1,9 per every 1000 newborns died among those babies delivered at 40 weeks, but that total climbed to 3,9 per 1000 among babies born at 37 weeks of pregnancy.

This trend was observed across all races and ethnicities but was most pronounced among black infants, the researchers said. “Although infant mortality rates overall improved in the days beyond recall decade, rates for non-Hispanic black babies born at 37 or 38 weeks of pregnancy remain unacceptably higher than other ethnological and ethnic groups,” Dr Uma Reddy, of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, said in the same news release.

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