"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 t...
Maternal health is a worldwide issue, and the United States is no exception. In fact, it has the highest maternal mortality rate of all developed countries.1 Racial disparities exist across all US income and education levels, with maternal mortality among Black wome...
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Although the numbers of pregnancy-related deaths in the United States are relatively low, research has focused on ways to further reduce maternal mortality. Despite these efforts, little progress has been made in the last 2 decades [1], [2]. Broadening the research focus to include the study...
[42]. In the USA, the infant mortality rate has greatly declined over the past few decades, from 20 infant deaths per 1,000 live births in 1970 [4] to about 6.1/1,000 in 2010 [43]. However, the USA still ranked 27th among industrialized nations in low infant mortality in 2008 [4...
Inequities in the utilization of maternal health services impede progress towards the MDG 5 target of reducing the maternal mortality ratio by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015. In Namibia, despite increasing investments in the health sector, the maternal mortality ratio has increased from 271 pe...
Thus, in Latin America, mortality may have been disproportionately higher among women whose first birth was at an early age and who would have had poorer physical performance at an older age. The unexpected results in Latin America may also reflect societal attitudes about teenage pregnancy. When...
According to America’s Health Rankings, the rate of Mississippi’s low birth weight infants (defined as less than 5 pounds, 8 ounces) has been on the rise, now accounting for 12.3% of births, leaving the state ranked last of 50 states. The state’s preterm birth rates declined in 2020...
Biomarkers are ranked by mean seasonal difference (Supplementary Table 2), with the greatest increment in the rainy versus dry season (BET:DMG) at the top, and the greatest decrement (SAH) at the bottom. Analysis of variance P-values: *<0.05; **<0.01; ***<0.001; N=167. (b) ...