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In the first article, published by the New England Journal of Medicine, it was found that infant mortality has declined in extremely mature infants since 2000. However, infant deaths from other causes has increased. From infants born between 22 and 28 weeks, 6,075 deaths from 22,248 live births were analyzed. Premature causes made up 40.4% of deaths that happened within 12 hours after birth and 17.3% after 28 days.

Fox News published an article on the same subject. This article focuses more on how The US compares to 28 other developed countries, such as the UK and Australia. The United States has higher rates of infant mortality than 25 of the other countries compared, with 6.1 deaths for every 1,000 live births.

In a third article, written by HealthDay, there are details about common causes for death in premature babies. A large part of deaths that took place between 15 and 60 days after birth were caused by necrotizing enterocolitis, and deaths that took place after 60 days were in large part caused from a lung disorder called bronchopulmonary dysplasia.

While the United States does have worse infant mortality rates than most developed countries, the rate is improving.