New research has found that in the US between 1999 and 2020, Black infants disproportionately died from necrotizing enterocolitis compared to White infants, despite overall improvements in the rates of death from the disease. This is according to a study published today (March 3, 2023) in JAMA Netwo
Micah, before he developed necrotizing enterocolitis. Credit: Jennifer Canvasser, NEC Society
Researchers in the current study wanted to determine the trends in NEC-related deaths in the US spanning both of these periods. They also examined racial disparities and geographic differences. Dr. Mattie Wolf, first-author of this study and a post-doctoral fellow at Emory University and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, notes, “These data clearly show improvements in NEC-related death in the US, although we do not know exactly what factors are driving these improvements.”
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