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  2. Black maternal mortality in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In the states of Pennsylvania, Missouri, and California, the journal article "Black-white disparities in maternal in-hospital mortality according to teaching and black-serving hospital status" discovered that between the years of 1995 to 2000, out of every 100,000 patients in a hospital, 11.5 black women died during pregnancy, and 4.8 white ...

  3. Maternal mortality in the United States - Wikipedia

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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).

  4. Maternal death - Wikipedia

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    Maternal death or maternal mortality is defined in slightly different ways by several different health organizations. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines maternal death as the death of a pregnant mother due to complications related to pregnancy, underlying conditions worsened by the pregnancy or management of these conditions.

  5. Black women are less likely to receive epidurals during labor ...

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    Maternal death rates also continue to spike in the U.S., with Black women in particular being nearly three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than white women.

  6. A Black mother died after childbirth in 2016. Now the ... - AOL

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    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 ...

  7. LA Senator Cassidy says maternal mortality rate isn’t that ...

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    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.

  8. Postpartum infections - Wikipedia

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    These infections were a very common cause of death around the time of childbirth starting in at least the 18th century until the 1930s when antibiotics were introduced. [9] In 1847, Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweiss decreased death from the disease in the First Obstetrical Clinic of Vienna from nearly 20% to 2% through the use of ...

  9. Pregnancy deaths skyrocketed in Texas after abortion ban ...

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    Among Hispanic women, the rate of women dying while pregnant, during childbirth or soon after increased from 14.5 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births in 2019 to 18.9 in 2022.