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U.S. Death Rates Drop Dramatically
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Page: << Prev | 1 | 2 | 3 "This is worrisome," Callahan said. "The disease is very common, unfortunately, and we don't have a cure for it yet and really not the best treatment, and it'll probably keep getting worse and worse as the population lives longer."
The preliminary infant mortality rate for 2004 was 6.76 infant deaths per 1,000 live births, representing a slight (1.3 percent) but not statistically significant decrease.
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View the report at the National Center for Health Statistics (www.cdc.gov).
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SOURCES: Arialdi Miniño, MPH, statistician, National Center for Health Statistics, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta; Eileen Callahan, M.D., assistant professor of geriatrics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York City; Knight Steel, M.D., chief of geriatrics, Hackensack University Medical Center and endowed professor of geriatrics, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey; CDC report, Deaths: Preliminary Data for 2004
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