The CDC reported a spike in maternal mortality rates, though the report may be flawed due to imperfect record-keeping and one checkbox on a death certificate.
The number of maternal deaths previously reported by the CDC may be inaccurately rising, a study recently revealed. Flawed or imperfect record-keeping could be the culprit for what seems to be a spiking rate of maternal deaths across the U.S.
study in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology found that one checkbox on death certificates may have been misused. Deaths recorded that included at least one mention of pregnancy were analyzed. Data was collected from the National Center for Health Statistics from the time periods of 1999 to 2002 and 2018 to 2021 and was examined by researchers. Specifically, researchers looked into the death certificates of women who were pregnant at or around the time of their deaths.
The NCHS this week concluded that the cause of death in non-Hispanic Black women was more often due to ectopic pregnancy, cardiovascular conditions and other diseases that were not as common in other women, according to Axios. An increase in maternal death among non-Hispanic White women increased, though the report showed that fatal cardiomyopathy and other causes of death were disproportionately more common among non-Hispanic Black women. For more Lifestyle articles, visit www.foxnews.
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