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- Black women are more likely to die than white women and have higher case-fatality rates from a range of conditions though the leading causes of maternal death for black and white women are similar. 2, 3 Cardiovascular conditions, cardiomyopathy and other medical conditions contributed to 40.9% and 46.8% of pregnancy-related deaths among white and black women and 25.5% of Hispanic women for deaths from 2011–2013 while 39.5% of pregnancy–related deaths among Hispanics and 48.9% among women from...
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Sep 5, 2019 · Approximately 700 women die in the United States each year as a result of pregnancy or its complications, and significant racial/ethnic disparities in pregnancy-related mortality exist ( 1 ). Data from CDC’s Pregnancy Mortality Surveillance System (PMSS) for 2007–2016 were analyzed.
- Emily E. Petersen, Nicole L. Davis, David Goodman, Shanna Cox, Carla Syverson, Kristi Seed, Carrie S...
- 2019
Results. The maternal mortality rate for non-Hispanic Black women was 3.55 times that for non-Hispanic White women. Leading causes of maternal death for non-Hispanic Black women were eclampsia and preeclampsia and postpartum cardiomyopathy with rates 5 times those for non-Hispanic White women.
- Marian F MacDorman, Marie Thoma, Eugene Declcerq, Elizabeth A Howell
- 2021
Dec 6, 2021 · Because pregnancy is riskier to women’s health than abortion, state initiatives to restrict abortion could lead to more deaths, particularly among Black women, new estimates suggest. Black Women Five Times More Likely to Die from Pregnancy-Related Cardiomyopathy, Blood Pressure Disorders Than White Women
Jul 3, 2023 · This article in the Women’s Health series discusses recent increases in US maternal death rates, disparities in rates by race and ethnicity, poor cardiovascular health (CVH) as one of the multifactorial causes, and clinical approaches to assessing and treating poor CVH postpartum.
May 10, 2020 · 1. Introduction. Racial and ethnic differences in obstetric, perinatal and neonatal outcomes in the United States (US) are well-documented [ 1, 2, 3 ]. Such differences have been shown to impact both maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality.
- Eran Bornstein, Yael Eliner, Frank A. Chervenak, Amos Grünebaum
- 10.3390/jcm9051414
- 2020
- J Clin Med. 2020 May; 9(5): 1414.
Jan 30, 2020 · The data, released Thursday by the National Center for Health Statistics, show that the national maternal mortality rate — deaths caused or aggravated by pregnancy — was an estimated 17.4...
Sep 17, 2020 · There were differences by race and Hispanic origin in causes of death, with Black women having three times the rate of fetal deaths because of maternal complications compared with White women. The disparities suggest opportunities for prevention to reduce the U.S. fetal mortality rate.
