A staggering number of maternal deaths – roughly 4 in 5 – in the United States were found to be preventable, according to a federal analysis of maternal death data released Monday.
Dr. Allison Bryant, a high-risk obstetrician, is the senior medical director for health equity at Massachusetts General Hospital.
More than 90% of Indigenous mothers’ deaths were preventable, with most due to mental health conditions and hemorrhage, according to the analysis. Black mothers, who are three times as likely as white mothers to die, made up close to a third of deaths and were most likely to die of cardiac and coronary problems.
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