title: Diverging racial trends in neonatal infantile hemangioma diagnoses, 1979-2006.
abstract: Nationally representative historical trends in neonatal infantile hemangioma (IH) diagnosis have not been previously assessed. Using the National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS), trends in IH diagnoses were assessed according to race and sex. Findings confirmed prior research that female and white newborns are more likely to be diagnosed with IH, and a statistically significant increase in IH diagnoses was observed in white, but not in nonwhite, infants.
authors: School of Medicine, New York University, New York, NY 10016, USA. stephen.amrock@med.nyu.edu
authors: Stephen M
authors: SM
authors: Amrock
authors: Michael
authors: M
authors: Weitzman
mesh_terms: D001213:Asian / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D044383:Black People / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D006391:Hemangioma / Q000208:ethnology*; D006801:Humans; D007198:Indians, North American / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D016014:Linear Models; D008297:Male; D044469:Racial Groups / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012307:Risk Factors; D017678:Sex Distribution; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000208:ethnology*; D044465:White People / Q000706:statistics & numerical data