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Black women are often less likely to receive adequate explanations or follow-up care for symptoms, a trend liked to implicit biases within medical settings. [16] For instance, Black women suffering from severe pregnancy-related complications such as preeclampsia are frequently dismissed or not taken seriously, resulting in higher rates of ...
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A national study examined the death rates from pregnancy in white and black women. The study found that for five particular pregnancy problems, the death risk was 2.4 to 3.3 times higher among black women. Preeclampsia, placenta abruptio, placenta previa, and postpartum hemorrhage were among them (Howell, 2018).
In total, 669 women died in 2023 during pregnancy or shortly after childbirth, the CDC reported. That’s down from 817 deaths in 2022 and 1,205 in 2021, when it was the highest in more than 50 years.
In the United States, approximately 17 mothers in every 100,000 pregnancies die, with three Black mothers dying for every white mother, per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Since 1999, the number of women who have died following childbirth has more than doubled, and Black women make up the majority of deaths, according to a study published in JAMA that uses data from ...
"the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and site of the pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management but not from accidental or incidental causes." Note that this wording includes abortion, miscarriage, stillbirth, and ectopic pregnancy
Heather Wilson lost her daughter — and nearly her life — the first time she gave birth. The Virginia Beach resident developed a potentially fatal condition and her blood pressure skyrocketed ...