How Risk Stratification Can Help Combat Preterm Birth Disparities
- In 2021, preterm births, which occur when an infant is born before 37 weeks gestational age, affected roughly one out of every 10 infants born in the US. The rate of preterm births rose 4 percent in a single year from 10.1 percent in 2020 to 10.5 percent in 2021, according to statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). That same year, African...
