Data show that pregnancy -related deaths tend in the wrong direction

Pregnancy -related deaths in the United States are in the wrong direction, as a newly published study shows.

The term pregnancy -related death defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) means a death caused by the pregnancy of a person during pregnancy or within a year after birth by the pregnancy of a person.

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Pregnancy -related deaths that prevail in these demographic characteristics

The American Medical Association has recently published a study in which it analyzed all pregnancy-related deaths in women between the ages of 15 and 54 from 2018 to 2022 using the nationwide CDC data.

There were a total of 6,283 pregnancy-related deaths during this period, including 1,891 late deaths in mothers-the-die who occur for more than 42 days, but less than a year after pregnancy due to obstetric causes.

Remarkably, the rate of pregnancy-related deaths rose by almost 28%from 25.3 per 100,000 live births in 2018 to 32.6 in 2022.

Women between the ages of 25 and 39 recorded the highest increase in pregnancy -related mortality rates during this period and rose by almost 37% (a total of 4,500 deaths). Those aged 15 to 24 followed with an increase of around 26% (a total of 870 deaths). Women between the ages of 40 and 54 had the highest overall quotas, but a small increase of 7.4% (913 deaths in total).

Regionally, the highest rates were observed in the southern countries from 2018 to 2022, with Alabama led by 59.7 deaths per 100,000 live births, followed by Mississippi at 58.2. In contrast, California had the lowest rate at 18.5, followed by Minnesota at 19.1.

Born women in the Indians and Alaska had the highest pregnancy-related mortality rate with 106.3 deaths per 100,000 living birth 3.8 times as high as white women. Non-Hispanic black women followed with a rate of 76.9 or 2.8 times higher than their white colleagues. In contrast, Hispanic and non-Hispanic Asian women had the lowest rates with 25.9 or 21.8 deaths per 100,000 live births.

Other pregnancy -related diseases such as bleeding and venous complications were the driving factors for high deaths in connection with pregnancy -related pregnancies that made 17.4%. This was followed by complications from the work levy, which relate to puerperium and hypertensive disorders. Together, hypertensive disorders and disorders in connection with pregnancy made up more than 20% of deaths.

“The current analysis confirmed the cardiovascular disease as an important cause of the death of pregnancy,” writes the study.

Pregnancy can influence the cardiovascular system, which leads to hypertensive disorders, deterioration of conditions such as pulmonary arterial hypertension or diseases such as peripartal cardiomyopathy.

“In the current analysis, more than 20% of mothers' deaths were attributed directly to hypertensive disorders and disorders in connection with pregnancy, with the importance of cardio-based care during and after pregnancy,” the study continued.

Late mothers -in deaths made 30% of the total pregnancy -related mortality.

“Many things and conditions why this occurs are really avoidable. We have to look at the full journey of maternal health. Many of these things appear after the woman was born … up to a year later,” said Wanda Montalvo, PhD. “Where is the birth person at this time? You are not in the hospital. You are back in your communities.”

MontalVo emphasized the view that the increase in pregnancy -related deaths is not as a deficit, but as an opportunity to use the strengths of the community.

The study estimates that between 2018 and 2022 2,679 pregnancy -related deaths could be prevented, which almost 43% of total deaths.

“Some of the solutions we have heard today – this is the coordination of care, the Doulas, midwives, an entire clinical team that helps people understand the value of breastfeeding, to understand the warning signs and how we work in cooperation with our hospitals in cooperation with our hospitals,” said Montalvo at the Event Health Week Event of the Black Mothers Health in the community. Richmond, Inc. in Stapleton in Stapleton in Stapleton in Stapleton in Stapleton.