RACEKey Points: Question: How does maternal mortality vary by state and race and ethnicity over time in the US? Findings: Long-term trends in maternal mortality ratios from vital registration and census data were estimated. Increases in maternal mortality ratios in specific ...
MATERNAL and infant mortality are basic health indicators that reflect a nation's health status. In the United States, infant mortality has declined steadily; however, this is not true for maternal mortality. This report presents data from death certificates compiled by CDC's National Center for ...
Maternal mortality rates and disparities varied widely across states. The South had high maternal mortality across all race and ethnicity groups, but especially for Black individuals. Black individuals had the highest maternal mortality rates in some states in the Northeast, which tripled over the tim...
The 3MID leverages individual-level data from Washington state—one of the few states that has detailed data on maternal mortality by race. This data set, applied to the 3MID, can help determine quantitative correlations among demographic factors such as race, age, socioeconomic status and mater...
"The United States is ranked 46th when it comes to maternal mortality. That's behind countries like Saudi Arabia and Kazakhstan." In the U.S., that means at least two women are dyingevery day. And it's not just deaths on the rise. So are "near deaths" … 60,000 a year across ...
Background: The health and well-being of mothers are essential for a thriving and prosperous society, yet maternal mortality remains a pressing public health problem in the USA. We aimed to examine the US trends in maternal mortality from 1999 to 2020 based on age, race/ethnicity, and census...
Figure. US Maternal Mortality Rates (95% CI) Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Race and Ethnicity View LargeDownload All rates met standards of reliability (numerator >16 deaths), which corresponded to SEs that were below 25% of the rate under the assumption of a Poisson distributio...
United States, 2019; Table S3: Logistic regression analyses for the interaction effects between chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis (Factor 1) and prenatal care (PNC) utilization status (Factor 2) on low birthweight stratified by maternal age < 25 years, United States; Table S4: Logistic regressi...
Becoming a mother is no easy task for any woman regardless of race, and the maternal mortality rate reflects just how hard that is in the United States. Researchers are beginning to understand the effects of the poor postpartum care that mothers receive nationwide. The American culture sets imp...
The deaths of women from 2009-13 during or after pregnancy were identified through the MBRRACE-UK Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths. The underlying causes of maternal death were reclassified from a disease-based system to ICD-MM. Maternal mortality rates with 95 % confidence intervals were...