More than 80%, or roughly 4 in 5 maternal deaths in a two-year period, were due to preventable causes, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report found.
Dr. Allison Bryant, a high-risk obstetrician, is the senior medical director for health equity at Massachusetts General Hospital.“It’s significant. It’s staggering. It’s heartbreaking,” said Bryant, who chairs the Massachusetts review committee. “It just means that we have so much work to do.” people who are more than twice as likely as white mothers to die of pregnancy-related causes but often undercounted in health data due to misclassification.
“It really needs to be looked at and examined why that is the case if essentially all of them are preventable,” he said. “It’s incredibly distressful.”Dr. Andrea Jackson, division chief of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of California, San Francisco, said there are known toolkits for clinicians that offer evidence-based guides on prevention and treatment of hemorrhage.
Black mothers, who are three times as likely as white mothers to die, made up close to a third of deaths, and were most likely to die of cardiac and coronary problems.“In both African American and Native Americans, we see this historic and unfortunate, constant disparity in outcomes,” Jackson said.
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