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Infant mortality rates by race and ethnicity, 1995 and 2000

• The three leading causes of infant death (congenital malformations, low birthweight, and Sudden infant death syndrome SIDS) taken together accounted for 45 percent of all infant deaths in the United States in 2000.
• For infants of black mothers, the infant mortality rate for low birthweight was nearly four times that for white mothers.
• For infants of black and American Indian mothers, the SIDS rates were 2.4 and 2.3 times that for non- Hispanic white mothers.

Citation - Mathews TJ, Menacker F, MacDorman MF. Infant mortality statistics from the 2000 period linked birth/infant death data set. National vital statistics reports; vol 50 no 12. Hyattsville, Maryland: National Center for Health Statistics. 2002. PDF

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