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Apgar scores discriminate the risk of infant mortality after birth less well in certain racial groups – including Black infants – than in White babies

07.12.22 | PLOS

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Apgar scores discriminate the risk of infant mortality after birth less well in certain racial groups – including Black infants – than in White babies
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Author Countries : United Kingdom

Funding: SJS is funded by a Wellcome Trust Clinical Career Development Fellowship 209560/Z/17/Z ( https://wellcome.org ). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

PLOS Medicine

10.1371/journal.pmed.1004040

Observational study

People

Associations between low Apgar scores and mortality by race in the United States: A cohort study of 6,809,653 infants

Competing interests: I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests:SJS has received grant funding, paid to her institution, from the Wellcome Trust, The National Institute of Healthcare Research, The Chief Scientist Office Scotland and Tommy’s Charity. SJS is an academic Editor for PLOS Medicine.

Keywords

Ethnicity Health Care Human Health Infant Mortality Infants Public Health

Article Information

Journal
PLOS Medicine
DOI
10.1371/journal.pmed.1004040
Method of Research
Observational study
Subject of Research
People
Article Title
Associations between low Apgar scores and mortality by race in the United States: A cohort study of 6,809,653 infants
COI Statement
Competing interests: I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests:SJS has received grant funding, paid to her institution, from the Wellcome Trust, The National Institute of Healthcare Research, The Chief Scientist Office Scotland and Tommy’s Charity. SJS is an academic Editor for PLOS Medicine.

Contact Information

Claire Turner
PLOS
medicinepress@plos.org
Shane Canning
University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
shane.canning@ed.ac.uk

How to Cite This Article

APA:
PLOS. (2022, July 12). Apgar scores discriminate the risk of infant mortality after birth less well in certain racial groups – including Black infants – than in White babies. Brightsurf News. https://www.brightsurf.com/news/LMJ03VNL/apgar-scores-discriminate-the-risk-of-infant-mortality-after-birth-less-well-in-certain-racial-groups-including-black-infants-than-in-white-babies.html
MLA:
"Apgar scores discriminate the risk of infant mortality after birth less well in certain racial groups – including Black infants – than in White babies." Brightsurf News, Jul. 12 2022, https://www.brightsurf.com/news/LMJ03VNL/apgar-scores-discriminate-the-risk-of-infant-mortality-after-birth-less-well-in-certain-racial-groups-including-black-infants-than-in-white-babies.html.