The number of people who died during or shortly after pregnancy rose to 1,205 in 2021.
Maternal mortality is a troubling issue in US public health.Experts say that COVID-19 also exacerbated the existing dangers, as pregnant patients faced greater risk of serious illness or death, as well as premature delivery and other complications. These perils increase if the patient is unvaccinated.
“It’s hard for us to speculate, but we did suspect that the pandemic would have an unfortunate effect on maternal mortality,” Stacey D. Stewart, president and chief executive of March of Dimes,Maternal deaths among black patients remain especially high compared to other groups, with a rate of 69.9 deaths per 100,000 live births, or 2.6 times that of non-Hispanic white patients.Dr.
“It’s not something that happens overnight. It’s going to be a while before we see the benefits of that change,” she explained., for example, that Australia, Austria, Israel, Japan and Spain all hovered around 2 to 3 deaths per 100,000 births in 2020.
Donna Hoyert, a health scientist at the National Center for Health Statistics who authored the new reports, told the outlet that provisional data suggests that pregnancy-related deaths may have peaked in 2021 and declined last year.in a report on life expectancy, dropping 40 spots since 1950 to 53rd place.
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