Babies born too soon and too small accounted for a growing proportion of infant deaths, according to new statistics released from the National Center for Health Statistics, (NCHS). Babies who died of preterm-related causes accounted for 36.5 percent of infant deaths in 2005, up from 34.6 percent in 2000, according to "Infant Mortality Statistics from the 2005 Period Linked Birth/Infant Death Data Set," Vol. 57, No.
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