The number of babies being born prematurely, which puts them at severe risk of life-threatening conditions and early death - has increased by more than 10 percent over the last decade. A and Prevention report found preterm births, defined as , increased by 12 percent between 2014 and 2022 from 7.7 percent to 8.7 percent. In 2022, provisional CDC data shows there were 3.66million babies born, meaning 318,400 of those children were born preterm.
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