{"id":535,"date":"2009-04-22T17:15:11","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T20:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchspressroom.wordpress.com\/?p=535"},"modified":"2009-04-22T17:15:11","modified_gmt":"2009-04-22T20:45:11","slug":"535","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2009\/04\/22\/535\/","title":{"rendered":"Report released on fetal mortality"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana\">Yesterday, the National Center for Health Statistics released the <em>Data Brief &#8220;<\/em>The Challenge of\u00a0Fetal Mortality.&#8221; Key findings include the following:<\/span><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana\"><\/p>\n<ul><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>The magnitude of fetal mortality is considerable: About 1 million fetal deaths occur at any gestational age in the United States each year, including almost 26,000 at 20 weeks of gestation or more.<\/li>\n<li>Even when limited to fetal deaths of 20 weeks of gestation or more, nearly as many fetal deaths as infant deaths occur in the United States each year.<\/li>\n<li>After decades of decline, the U.S. fetal mortality rate (fetal deaths of 20 weeks of gestation or more) did not decrease from 2003 to 2005.\n<p>For more information, please visit the report at <a title=\"Link to Data Brief on fetal mortality.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db16.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db16.pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/li>\n<p><\/span><\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\u00a0\u00a0<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the National Center for Health Statistics released the Data Brief &#8220;The Challenge of\u00a0Fetal Mortality.&#8221; Key findings include the following: \u00a0 The magnitude of fetal mortality is considerable: About 1 million fetal deaths occur at any gestational age in the United States each year, including almost 26,000 at 20 weeks of gestation or more. Even<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53763],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}