PEDIATRICS Vol. 58 No. 2 August 1976, pp. 283-287
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Heart Rate and Blood Pressure in Black Newborns and in White Newborns

Joseph Schachter M.D., Ph.D.1, John M. Lachin III Sc.D.1, Joyce L. Kerr Ph.D.1, Francis C. Wimberly III M.S.1, and John J. Ratey 1

1 Pittsburgh Child Guidance Center, and Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Sixty-one full-term, appropriate-weight black newborns had higher heart rates, replicating a racial heart rate difference, but did not differ significantly in systolic blood pressure from 71 white newborns. Systolic blood pressure in the newborn is related both to the total number of feedings from birth and to the total fluid intake.