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In the UK, risk of severe maternal health problems is elevated for nonwhites.

Publication: Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health
Publication Date: 01-SEP-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: In the UK, risk of severe maternal health problems is elevated for nonwhites.(Digests)

Article Excerpt
In the United Kingdom, 89 women of every 100,000 who gave birth in 2005-2006 experienced at least one of five serious pregnancy-related conditions. The rate was significantly higher among black women than among whites, and analyses that controlled for a range of risk factors confirmed that nonwhite women overall have a higher risk of maternal morbidity than their white counterparts. (1) Maternal deaths are infrequent in the United Kingdom, as they are in most developed countries; therefore, the analysts reasoned that studying severe maternal morbidity--which occurs more frequently than maternal mortality--may shed additional light on the pregnancy experiences of different subgroups of women.

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