{"id":10351,"date":"2018-09-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/13\/cdc-infant-mortality-rate-varies-greatly-among-states\/"},"modified":"2018-09-14T16:04:05","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T16:04:05","slug":"cdc-infant-mortality-rate-varies-greatly-among-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/13\/cdc-infant-mortality-rate-varies-greatly-among-states\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC: Infant Mortality Rate Varies Greatly Among States"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Low of 3.47 in Vermont to a high of 9.03 in Alabama in infant deaths per 1,000 live births<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>THURSDAY, Sept. 13, 2018 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Infant mortality rates in the United States vary substantially by state, according to a <i>QuickStats<\/i> report published in the Aug. 24 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention&#8217;s <i>Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Danielle M. Ely, Ph.D., from the CDC in Atlanta, and colleagues used 2016 data from the National Vital Statistics System to assess the U.S. infant mortality rate.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found that the infant mortality rate in the United States was 5.87 infant deaths per 1,000 live births in 2016. The infant mortality rate ranged from a low of 3.47 in Vermont to a high of 9.03 in Alabama. Two other states had rates below 4: New Hampshire, at 3.67, and Massachusetts, at 3.94. Southern states generally had higher rates of infant mortality. Two states besides Alabama had infant mortality rates above 8: Arkansas, at 8.2, and Mississippi, at 8.67.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/67\/wr\/mm6733a7.htm?s_cid=mm6733a7_w \" target=\"_new\">More Information<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i>   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Low of 3.47 in Vermont to a high of 9.03 in Alabama in infant deaths per 1,000 live births<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10382,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-10351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}