"A study led by the University of South Florida sheds new light on obesity's role in the black-white gap in infant mortality...Stop these killers before they kill again.
"Infants of obese black mothers had a higher risk of death in the first 27 days following birth than newborns of obese white mothers, the researchers found...
'Even if the infant of an obese black woman survives pregnancy, labor and delivery, that baby is at greater risk of dying than a baby born to an obese white woman,' said the study's lead author Hamisu Salihu, MD, PhD, associate professor of epidemiology at the USF College of Public Health."
Monday, June 23, 2008
Mother's Obesity A Factor In Newborn Deaths For Blacks, Not Whites, New Study Reports
Forget child abuse. Now it is infanticide.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment