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U.S. maternal death rate increasing at an alarming rate
The U.S. maternal mortality rate is accelerating at an alarming rate, reports a new study from Northwestern Medicine. But it’s not due to the widely believed hypothesis that maternal mortality in the U.S. has increased largely because people are getting pregnant at older ages.
While this study wasn’t able to explore specific causes of death, a large body of prior research, much of it published by Khan, has found cardiovascular disease (hypertensive disorders, heart failure and stroke) is a major contributor to poor maternal health outcomes. Therefore, to control for the checkbox, the study authors excluded those seven states (Alabama, Colorado, Georgia, Louisiana, Michigan, Ohio and West Virginia). The study authors used data from the Centers for Disease Control Wonder databases to examine all maternal deaths and live births from individuals aged 15 to 44 years old.
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