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Really? From research I have done in the past, I never noticed any discrepancy in infant mortality between African Americans and white Americans in the United S
by dcurtis 18y ago
Really? From research I have done in the past, I never noticed any discrepancy in infant mortality between African Americans and white Americans in the United States.
Remember where you learned this? I'd be interested to learn more.
- yummyfajitas 18y agoNewspaper article, most likely, I don't remember exactly. However, a quick google search for "low birth weight race" yields: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5127a1.htm#tab1 http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5127a1.htm#tab1 Here is another quirk of the measurement system I just discovered while googling. Low birthweight rates increase with income (at least in Brazil): http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118696841/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118696841/abstrac...