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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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PLOS

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.

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.

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