A few years ago, it came to wide public attention that American's today are 50% more likely to die in childbirth than their own mothers-- risks that are consistently higher for native and black Americans than white Americanshttps://www.propublica.org/series/lost-mothers …
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Maternal mortality is hard to track and report accurately, particularly because the reasons why someone died are not always readily apparent from a death certificate About a decade ago our country began a slow, incremental, state-by-state process of addressing this
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placing a "pregnancy" check box on the death certificate was a step forward... but in many cases this box was being checked in error and muddying the picture
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the new data from the CDC aims to address this using a number of wonky exclusions...this yielded a more conservative estimate of the number of pregnancy-related deaths in our country
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importantly, the maternal mortality rate attends to a narrow set of clinical diagnoses and does not include suicide and homicide-- we know however, that pregnant people are particularly vulnerable to exacerbations of life-threatening mental illness and domestic violence
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it is very possible that the new CDC estimates are undercounting the ways in which mothers in country are vulnerable to dying of preventable causes
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and even using conservative estimates, a disturbing set of trends still hold: -hundreds of American mothers die each year of preventable pregnancy-related causes -the risks of dying have increased significantly -we are much worse at saving the lives of native and black mothers
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The full CDC report contains a lot of nuance but this simple headline from
@voxdotcom is spot on:pic.twitter.com/qzwUsa2hGb
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Thanks for this thread! Retweeting.
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Neel— do you have an academic reference for the 50% increased risk than prior generation— am writing a grant and am having a hard time documenting this important number. thanks!
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