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[1] [6] Since 2018, there has been a 4% increase in maternity care deserts in the U.S. [1] In the United States, up to 60,000 women a year experience severe maternal morbidity, life-threatening complications as a result of pregnancy, resulting in up to 700 pregnancy-related deaths annually.
In the United States the maternal mortality ratio rose during the years 2002-2015. [3] Although improvements in health care facilitated a dramatic decline in maternal mortality worldwide during the 20th century, women still die from complications of pregnancy, though there are significant differences in the top causes per region and income ...
According to a report by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 1993 the rate of Severe Maternal Morbidity, rose from 49.5 to 144 "per 10,000 delivery hospitalizations" in 2014, an increase of almost 200 percent. Blood transfusions also increased during the same period with "from 24.5 in 1993 to 122.3 in 2014 and are ...
The US maternal mortality rate fell from 32.9 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births in 2021 to 22.3 per 100,000 in 2022, according to the report, published Thursday by the CDC’s National ...
Maternal mortality is an urgent and pervasive problem robbing the world’s children of their mothers. ... maternal death rates have worsened in higher income countries like the United States ...
In the United States, severe maternal morbidity has increased over the last several years, impacting greater than 50,000 women in 2014 alone. There is no conclusive reason for this dramatic increase. It is thought that the overall state of health for pregnant women is impacting these rates.
Hyperemesis gravidarum is the presence of severe and persistent vomiting, causing dehydration and weight loss. It is similar although more severe than the common morning sickness. [15] [16] It is estimated to affect 0.3–3.6% of pregnant women and is the greatest contributor to hospitalizations under 20 weeks of gestation. Most often, nausea ...
Between 2021 and 2024, at least 21 states have funded clinics with taxpayer dollars — all of them anti-abortion states with high rates of maternal and infant mortality above the national average.