New Delhi: Murder is the leading cause of maternal mortality in the US, which is more than twice as high as any pregnancy-related complication. This shocking fact was revealed through evaluation of death certificates from a national database of all women aged 10-44 years who died in 2018 and 2019. About two-thirds of fatal injuries occurred during pregnancy or within 42 days after the end of pregnancy. Happened inside homes and most (69%) involved firearms.
The study, conducted by researchers in New Orleans, Louisiana, was published in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology, use data from National Center for Health StatisticsResearchers showed that the risk of death from homicide during pregnancy or during the postpartum period more than doubled from hypertensive disorders, bleeding and infection.
The study concluded that women of reproductive age (10-44 years) have a higher risk of homicide when pregnant or in the postpartum period than other women of the same age group. It also found that pregnancy was associated with a higher risk of homicide for Black women and those aged 10–24 years younger.
In 2003, the US introduced an amendment to the standard certificate of death that included a pregnancy checkbox to classify female deaths, these categories: not pregnant at death, pregnant, within 42 days, or 43 days of pregnancy. From 1 year onwards. It was not until 2018 that all 50 states implemented this change. Therefore, the researchers used data from 2018 and 2019 to conduct the analysis.
“Murder and other violent causes are, by definition, not counted in estimates of maternal mortality, which measures the totality of preventable deaths among girls and women in the pregnant or postpartum period,” the study said. Fails to catch.”
Even without counting homicide as a cause of maternal death, the US maternal mortality rate (MMR), 23.8 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2020, was the highest in the developed world. mmr Among almost all European countries, Australia and Japan are in the single digits. Norway, Italy and Belarus had the lowest MMR, with just two deaths per 100,000.
MMR in the US continues to worsen, rising from 17 in 2017 to 20 in 2019 and then to 23.8. The increase was mostly due to increased mortality rates for Hispanic and black women. The MMR for black women is 55.3, while it is 19.1 for white women. To put those numbers into perspective, India’s MMR was last measured in 2017-19 at 103, but varied widely between states, from a low of 30 in Kerala to a high of 205 in Assam.
The study, conducted by researchers in New Orleans, Louisiana, was published in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology, use data from National Center for Health StatisticsResearchers showed that the risk of death from homicide during pregnancy or during the postpartum period more than doubled from hypertensive disorders, bleeding and infection.
The study concluded that women of reproductive age (10-44 years) have a higher risk of homicide when pregnant or in the postpartum period than other women of the same age group. It also found that pregnancy was associated with a higher risk of homicide for Black women and those aged 10–24 years younger.
In 2003, the US introduced an amendment to the standard certificate of death that included a pregnancy checkbox to classify female deaths, these categories: not pregnant at death, pregnant, within 42 days, or 43 days of pregnancy. From 1 year onwards. It was not until 2018 that all 50 states implemented this change. Therefore, the researchers used data from 2018 and 2019 to conduct the analysis.
“Murder and other violent causes are, by definition, not counted in estimates of maternal mortality, which measures the totality of preventable deaths among girls and women in the pregnant or postpartum period,” the study said. Fails to catch.”
Even without counting homicide as a cause of maternal death, the US maternal mortality rate (MMR), 23.8 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2020, was the highest in the developed world. mmr Among almost all European countries, Australia and Japan are in the single digits. Norway, Italy and Belarus had the lowest MMR, with just two deaths per 100,000.
MMR in the US continues to worsen, rising from 17 in 2017 to 20 in 2019 and then to 23.8. The increase was mostly due to increased mortality rates for Hispanic and black women. The MMR for black women is 55.3, while it is 19.1 for white women. To put those numbers into perspective, India’s MMR was last measured in 2017-19 at 103, but varied widely between states, from a low of 30 in Kerala to a high of 205 in Assam.