Opinion
Black Pregnant.2019
Received Date: April 17, 2019; Published Date: April 24, 2019
Abstract
In 1986, the CDC established the pregnancy mortality surveillance system to evaluate clinical issues surrounding maternal death. At its inception the number of maternal deaths was noted to be 7.2/100,000; in 2019, three decades later, the rate has almost tripled-with Black women disproportionately affected, no matter the socioeconomic status. The cause of this disparity remains unclear. Extant studies have proposed myriad factors, inclusive of prenatal infections, lack of prenatal care and medical co-morbidities, during pregnancy as critical.
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