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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Sep 14.
Published in final edited form as: J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2009 Aug;20(3):729–747. doi: 10.1353/hpu.0.0180

Table 4.

Number of excess preterm births among non-Hispanic, singleton Black births (≥20 completed weeks gestation) in Michigan in 2003

Gestational age
(in weeks)		 Number of excess
Black preterm births		 Expected number
of fetal deaths		 Expected number
of neonatal deaths		 Expected number
of survivorsa
20 13 7 6 0
21 29 10 19 0
22 40 17 19 4
23 36 9 19 8
24 41 6 12 23
25 52 7 10 35
26 46 8 4 34
27 44 2 7 35
28 41 3 2 36
29 56 7 1 48
30 53 3 1 49
31 63 3 3 57
32 94 1 2 91
33 69 1 1 67
34 155 2 1 152
35 176 1 2 173
36 176 1 1 174
Total 1,184 88 110 986
Expected birth outcomes if the excess Black preterm births were born at term 1 1 1,182
a

Newborns who would survive the first 28 days of life.