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By the numbers: Health disparities in pregnancy
700 women die each year of complications
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Approximately 700 women die each year in the U.S. as a result of pregnancy-related complications.
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American Indian/Alaska Native women and African American women are 2 to 4 times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than white women.
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Black women under age 20 are 1.5 times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than white women in the same age group.
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Black women ages 30–34 are 4.3 times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than white women of the same ages.
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In the U.S., stillbirths are more than twice as likely among Black women than among white women.
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Approximately two-thirds of all pregnancy-related deaths may be preventable, supporting the need for more research to improve maternal health outcomes.
