The number of women who died during pregnancy or shortly after giving birth jumped in the first year of the pandemic, a new study shows.
The number of women who died during pregnancy or shortly after giving birth jumped in the first year of the pandemic, a study inWhile pregnancy-associated causes were still the leading cause of death, the jump in mortality between 2019 and 2020 was largely not related to the pregnancies themselves.The study, led by the University of Texas at San Antonio, found mortality rates increased by 22%, from 27.5 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2019 to 33.
6 deaths per 100,000 live births for pregnancy-associated causes in 2020.Mortality rates increased "significantly" for drug poisoning, motor vehicle collisions and homicide, but did not increase due to suicide.
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