{"id":7087,"date":"2007-05-04T14:12:17","date_gmt":"2007-05-04T14:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchspressroom.wordpress.com\/2007\/05\/04\/new-infant-mortality-report\/"},"modified":"2007-05-04T14:12:17","modified_gmt":"2007-05-04T14:12:17","slug":"new-infant-mortality-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2007\/05\/04\/7087\/","title":{"rendered":"New Infant Mortality Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CDC&#8217;s National Center for Health Statistics has released a new report on infant mortality that has a lot of good news and some troubling numbers, too.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/pressroom\/07newsreleases\/infantmortality.htm\">The lede<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica\">The infant mortality rate in the United States in 2004 was 6.78 infant (under 1 year of age) deaths per 1,000 live births, not significantly different from the rate of 6.84 in 2003, according to a new report released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention&#8217;s National Center for Health Statistics. The report, \u201cInfant Mortality Statistics from the 2004 Period Linked Birth\/Infant Death Data Set,\u201d also finds continued racial\/ethnic disparities in infant mortality rates.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica\">Non-Hispanic black women had the highest infant mortality rate in the United States in 2004 \u2013 13.60 per 1,000 live births compared to 5.66 per 1,000 births among non-Hispanic white women. Women of Cuban ethnicity in the United States had the lowest infant mortality rate of 4.55 per 1,000 live births.<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">Download the whole <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/nvsr\/nvsr55\/nvsr55_14.pdf\">report here<\/a>. If you have a question about the report let us know.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">Historical infant mortality <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/hus\/tables\/2001\/01hus023.pdf\">data beginning in 1950 <\/a>is located here.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CDC&#8217;s National Center for Health Statistics has released a new report on infant mortality that has a lot of good news and some troubling numbers, too. \u00a0The lede: The infant mortality rate in the United States in 2004 was 6.78 infant (under 1 year of age) deaths per 1,000 live births, not significantly different<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47309,49481,47334,63685,53751],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7087"}],"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=7087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}