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Maternal Mortality up 30% from 2019 to 2020
Research has suggested trends of worsening maternal health associated with depression,1 substance use,2 and severe maternal morbidity3 in the US over the past decade. All-cause and drug/alcohol poisoning mortality rates for pregnant and recently pregnant women also increased in the US from 2015 to 2019.4 We examined all-cause and cause-specific mortality rates among pregnant and recently pregnant women from 2019 to 2020 and compared mortality rates by race and ethnicity.
The all-cause mortality rate for recently pregnant women increased by 29% (MRR, 1.29 [1.21-1.37]; P < .001) from 53.9 to 69.6 per 100 000 live births. Mortality rates increased by 22% (MRR, 1.22 [1.12-1.32]) from 27.5 to 33.6 per 100 000 live births for pregnancy-associated causes and by 36% (1.36 [1.24-1.48]; P < .001) from 26.4 to 36.0 per 100 000 live births for nonpregnancy causes.
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