A preliminary report on birth outcomes in this group has been published (Berkowitz et al. 2003b).
The out-of-wedlock birth rate for Hispanic women in the U.S. reached over 53percentt of new births in 2010, according to the National Vital Statistics Report on Births: Preliminary Data for 2010.
Worldwide, at least 7.9 million people are born each year with a birth defect, according to Global Report on Birth Defects: The Hidden Toll of Dying and Disabled Children, a 2006 report by the March of Dimes Foundation, a birth defects research and advocacy group.
The journal Pediatrics has published its annual report on birth and pregnancy in the United States, and it found that the number of babies born in 2007 -- 4,317,119 -- was the highest ever recorded.
The Global Report on Birth Defects published by the American charity March of Dimes says eight million affected babies are born each year, of whom 3.3 million die before they reach the age of five, a greater toll than from Aids, malaria and tuberculosis combined.
However, as the latest March of Dimes Global Report on Birth Defects shows, the incidence of birth defects remains considerable everywhere [ 2].
The latest report on birth weight standards for South Indian babies was published in 1996, which is nearly one and a half decades old and may no longer be pertinent to infants born in more recent years [ 2].
Indeed, the sociodemographic data was comparable to the database of the Perinatal Epidemiology Centre CEPIPP) which records and analyzes all statistical reports on births in the region [ 14].
Indeed, the sociodemographic data were comparable to the two databases of the Perinatal Epidemiology Centre CEPIPP) which records and analyzes all statistical reports on births in the two regions [ 1, 2].
This is the first of seven articles in a global report on preterm birth and stillbirth.
This is the third article in a global report on preterm birth and stillbirth.
