Tue Feb 8, 2022 – 4:17 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — A study published last month found that the survival rate of “extremely preterm” infants significantly improved over the past decade.
The rate of survival (to hospital discharge) for infants born at 22 to 28 weeks of pregnancy increased from 76 percent during the 2008-2012 period to 78.3 percent from 2013 to 2018, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded study led by Edward F. Bell, M.D., of the University of Iowa.
This amounts to a survival rate of now almost four in five babies born between 22 and 28 weeks.
The study, which was published January 18 in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), assessed more than 10,000 infants born at 19 medical centers across the U.S. It found that survival rate improved dramatically from the earliest-born infants to the latest-born infants who were studied: Only 11 percent of babies born at 22 weeks survived to discharge, compared with 94 percent of those born at 28 weeks, according to an NIH advisory on the study.
It is noteworthy, however, that another 2019 study from the University of Iowa found that 64% of 22-week babies born
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