https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/936921
News Release 8-Dec-2021
Study suggests racial and ethnic disparities in severe maternal morbidity rates up to a year after delivery, higher risk for those with anxiety and depression.
Peer-Reviewed Publication
Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan
Efforts to reduce maternal morbidity have primarily centered around the risk of life-threatening events during and shortly after pregnancy.
But these risks may continue well into the late postpartum period as well – especially for individuals who are Black or have depression or anxiety – new research suggests.
Researchers analyzed data from a national sample of nearly 101,000 commercially insured people up to a year after giving birth. Nearly 1 in 333 experienced “near miss” events or illnesses that could have resulted in death, according to the findings in JAMA Network Open.
“In the U.S. we still view postpartum health as confined to issues occurring in the first few weeks after birth,” said lead author Lindsay Admon, M.D., M.Sc., an obstetrician-gynecologist and researcher at University of Michigan Health Von Voigtlander Women’s Hospital. “But alarming data is emerging showing increasing rates of maternal mortality later in the first year postpartum.”
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