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Delaying umbilical cord clamping significantly reduces the risk of death in premature babies

20 Nov 2023

Waiting for at least two minutes to clamp the umbilical cord of premature babies at birth could decrease the child’s risk of death, two new studies find.

Researchers at the Irish Centre for Maternal and Child Health Research (INFANT) at University College Cork were part of the major international iCOMP collaboration which examined clinical trial data and outcomes of thousands of premature babies across the world.