Maternal Mortality
The death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days.
What is Maternal Mortality?
The death of a child under the age of 1 year
What is the infant mortality rate (IMR)?
Racial disparities: 44.0 deaths per 100,000 live births (Compared to 2.5x and 3.5x white/hispanic)
What is the MMR for non-Hispanic black women?
Leading cause of maternal death, 16%
What is cardiovascular disease?
31%
What is antenatal or during pregnancy?
The number of pregnancy-associated deaths per 100,000 live births.
What is the Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR)?
Birth weight less than 3.3lbs
What is very low birth weight?
Geographic disparities: US states with 30 deaths per 100,000
What are Southern states (Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, and Oklahoma)?
Second leading causes of maternal death, 13.9%
What is infection or sepsis?
17%
What is the Day of Delivery?
The number of women who die each year during pregnancy and childbirth
What is 300,000 women?
Birthweight less than 5.5lbs or 2,500grams
What is low birth weight?
Age disparities: 75.5 deaths per 100,000 live births
MMR pregnant women age 40+
Third leading cause of maternal death, 12.5%
What is Cardiomyopathy?
19%
What is Days 1-6 postpartum?
Increased by 131% from 2010 to 2017
What is Opioid Use Disorder among individuals delivering at hospitals
Birth before 37 weeks
What is preterm brith?
These southern states have the highest IMR
What are Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama?
What is Hemmorrhage?
21%
What is Days 7-42 postpartum?
The US is the only industrialized nation to show an increase in this
What is Maternal Mortality
Name any three risk factors for preterm labor
bacterial infection, psychological stress -> fetal stress, placental abruption, multiple fetusus, abnormality of the uterus or placenta, diabetes, hypertension, mother underweight, obesity, short time between pregnancies, inductions, CS.
The US ranked 33 out of 36 in the OECD nations for
What is the highest IMR? (US IMR 5.6 deaths per 1,000 live births)
5th leading cause of maternal death, 11.4%
What are other noncardiovascular diseases (diabetes, mental health, substance use etc) ?
12%