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States with more killings of unarmed Black people have larger Black–White preterm birth disparities

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Fig. 1: Police killings of unarmed black Americans and racial disparities in preterm birth in each state.

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The Department of Pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia provided support for this project.

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    Nancy Yang

  2. Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA

    James W. Collins Jr

  3. Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Heather H. Burris

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Yang, N., Collins, J.W. & Burris, H.H. States with more killings of unarmed Black people have larger Black–White preterm birth disparities. J Perinatol 41, 358–359 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41372-020-00914-6

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