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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.
A recent report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed that maternal mortality – deaths that occur during pregnancy or within 42 days after delivery – increased by 40% in 2021. This figure affirmed that the US is the most dangerous rich country to live in during pregnancy or childbirth.
For every woman who dies, there are about 20 to 30 women who experience injury, infection, or other birth or pregnancy related complication. [ 6 ] UNFPA estimated that 303,000 women died of pregnancy or childbirth related causes in 2015.
The number of women dying while pregnant is returning to pre-pandemic levels following a worrisome 2021 spike, a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows.. In 2022, 817 ...
"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
A Texas law that banned abortions early in pregnancy is associated with a stark increase in infant and ... from 1,985 in 2021 to 2,240 in 2022. During that same period, infant deaths rose by about ...
Texas has the highest maternal mortality rate in the developed world, and the rate by which Texas women died from pregnancy related complications doubled from 2010 to 2014, to 23.8 per 100,000. A rate unmatched in any other U.S. state or economically developed country.
The CDC counts women who die while pregnant, during childbirth and up to 42 days after birth. ... Aug. 31, 2021. More than 1,200 U.S. women died in 2021 during pregnancy or shortly after ...