The Nurse Caring for Young Children in a Hospice Setting

The nurse caring for young children in a hospice setting is aware of the following statistics related to the occurrence of death in children. Which one of the following statements accurately reflects one of these statistics?

A) Each year, about 50,000 children die in the United States; of those, about 15,000are infants.
B) It is unusual for a child's chronic illness to progress to the point of becoming aterminal illness.
C) Despite strides made, diabetes remains the leading cause of death from disease inall children older than the age of 1 year.
D) Congenital defects and traumatic injuries are the most common causes of diseasesleading to death.