U.S. maternal death rate grew 38% in 2021, CDC data shows

[jgo]

Source: UPI

The percentage of mothers who died while pregnant or within 42 days of the end of their pregnancy grew at an alarming rate in 2021, a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows.

The new CDC report published Thursday used data from the National Vital Statistics System, and could show how the rise in mortality rates may have been intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic.

For the report, the CDC calculated mortality rates as the number of deaths per 100,000 births. The data shows that mortality rates have been rising since well before the pandemic but began to spike after the emergence of COVID-19.

In 2018, the CDC recorded 3,791,712 live births and the death of 658 expectant or new mothers for a mortality rate of 17.4 per 100,000 live births.



Read more: https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2023/03/16/maternal-death-rate-climbed-2021-cdc-data/5441679024799/

[Diamond_Dog]

1. And all the idiot states banning abortion care in regards to crisis pregnancies.

Just shameful.

[Irish_Dem]

2. The maternal death rate will continue to rise.

When pregnant women don't receive adequate treatment thanks to politicians.
And often women with forced pregnancies do not even seek medical treatment.

[PlutosHeart]

13. Soon to reach the 1700-1800 levels I suspect.

Many women died giving birth or prior to.

[tornado34jh]

3. It's only going to get higher

With states putting abortion bans with no exceptions, including ectopic pregnancy, a life-threatening condition, it will only get higher. You know, back then I used to think the United States was setting a good standard, but not anymore. I saw a DW documentary the other day regarding women in El Salvador being charged for murder in a country where the death rate is very high among pregnant women. That's what some of these politicians want. It's not even close compared to other industrialized nations. Other similar countries have at least 3 times less maternal death rate than the United States. According to the WHO, in 2018, we ranked behind Russia of all countries in terms of material mortality rate. But the way things are going, we are rapidly falling down the ranks.

[Mysterian]

4. Greatest country in the world!

Is somewhere in Europe.

[IronLionZion]

5. US measures greatness by weapons, guns, missiles, and things that kill

rather than healthcare outcomes, education, or economic opportunities

[roamer65]

6. I want to see it state by state in a year or so.

We all know what that data will look like, sadly.

[peppertree]

7. Other countries have also reported the same troubling trend

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In Brazil, notably, the maternal death rate rose from 58 in 2019, to 72 in 2020, and to 112 in 2021 - the highest since 1990.

In neighboring Argentina, it was even more dramatic: from 37 in 2019, to 41 in 2020, to 74 in 2021 - the highest since 1979.

Similar - though milder - bumps in maternal mortality were seen during the 2009 'swine flu' epidemic.

[Turbineguy]

8. Republicans love to kill Women.

[Backseat Driver]

9. Thanks - this link does identify what should have and was earlier

used to give meaning to your OP, jgo, and yet found to represent analysis in LBN. This one's full of facts! I'm quite convinced DUers each make their own arguments, whether they read "news" from this link or that used in your earlier one! No matter which, the reality is too important to get lost.

[sinkingfeeling]

10. Hey, it's only women dying. It's okay as long as the 'baby'

survives.

[Igel]

12. Here's the report.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/maternal-mortality/2021/maternal-mortality-rates-2021.pdf

It's pre-Dobbs.

It's when provision of the ACA and Medicaid were extended. More covered by insurance than ever! Much boasting, but you know, you look at MM numbers and you don't see the effect. (Except for the vacuous "Imagine what it would have been otherwise!" come back.)

Biggest rises were for women >= 40 years of age, Black.

Much has been made of the role of poverty, but this is the first year in many that Latino MM rates (lic. increased poverty, lack of insurance, undocumented status) exceeded non-Hispanic whites (privileged, higher incomes). Perhaps increased immigration played a role, increasing the uninsured/impoverished rates? Dunno. But you don't see Latino rates broken out from non-Hispanic whites in this discussion involving higher black MM rates because the trend's "off". If privilege accounts for the data, then Latinas are more privileged than whites. That's drivel, and so there are trends in the data being missed by the categories considered important.

The black v white (from all ethnicities) difference is longstanding and fairly intractable. It's not by income level (in years prior to 2021) or education level (closely related to income level). Poor Latinas before 2021 (and probably in 2021) died and were included in MM stats at much lower rates than much richer and higher-educated black women. A lot's been written but none's yielded a consensus (as of late 2020 regarding 2019).

[Hugh_Lebowski]

11. This is pre-Hobbs ... and my partner who's a medical prof says ... it's mostly racial

and not so much related to abortion services ... yet.

It's just going to get worse once the last 6 months numbers come in, IOW.