Editing Perinatal asphyxia (section)

==Epidemiology==
[[File:Birth asphyxia and birth trauma world map - DALY - WHO2002.svg|thumb|[[Disability-adjusted life year]] for birth asphyxia and birth trauma per 100,000&nbsp;inhabitants in 2002]]

A 2008 bulletin from the [[World Health Organization]] estimates that 900,000 total infants die each year from birth asphyxia, making it a leading cause of death for newborns.<ref name="WHO_2008">{{cite web | url=https://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/86/4/07-049924/en/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091130182954/http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/86/4/07-049924/en/ | url-status=dead | archive-date=November 30, 2009 | title=Preventing those so-called stillbirths | publisher=WHO | access-date=13 December 2013 |vauthors=Spector J, Daga S }}</ref>

In the United States, [[intrauterine hypoxia]] and birth asphyxia was listed as the tenth leading cause of neonatal death.<ref>[https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/prelimdeaths04/preliminarydeaths04.htm National Center for Health Statistics]</ref>
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