{"id":25691,"date":"2025-04-09T21:31:50","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T21:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25691"},"modified":"2025-04-09T22:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T22:27:12","slug":"one-third-of-maternal-deaths-occur-long-after-delivery-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25691","title":{"rendered":"One-Third of Maternal Deaths Occur Long After Delivery, Study Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pregnancy-related mortality has risen sharply, and doctors have overlooked a particularly dangerous period: from six weeks to one year after the birth.<\/p>\n

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During a recent five-year period, a substantial portion of maternal deaths in America \u2014 almost one-third \u2014 took place more than six weeks after childbirth, at a time when most new mothers think they are in the clear, researchers reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The study, published in JAMA Network Open<\/a>, is one of the first to track maternal health complications during pregnancy and in the year after delivery.<\/p>\n

Pregnancy-related death rates in the United States rose almost 28 percent from 2018 to 2022, the researchers found, surging at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2021 before subsiding somewhat.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur study illustrates why we can\u2019t take our eyes off maternal health,\u201d said Dr. Rose L. Molina, an associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive biology at Harvard Medical School and one of the study\u2019s authors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Women need \u201caccess to high-quality care from the moment of conception to a full year after birth,\u201d she added. While there has been a growing emphasis on care in the year after childbirth, \u201cwe\u2019re not there yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

The study was based on data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u2019s division of reproductive health, which monitors maternal mortality and identified the risk of so-called later maternal deaths<\/a> \u2014 those that occur from six weeks to one year after the birth.<\/p>\n

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Pregnancy-related mortality has risen sharply, and doctors have overlooked a particularly dangerous period: from six weeks to one year after the birth.During a recent five-year period, a substantial portion of maternal deaths in America \u2014 almost one-third \u2014 took place more than six weeks after childbirth, at a time when most new mothers think they are in the clear, researchers reported on Wednesday.The study, published in JAMA Network Open, is one of the first to track maternal health complications during pregnancy and in the year after delivery.Pregnancy-related death rates in the United States rose almost 28 percent from 2018 to 2022, the researchers found, surging at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2021 before subsiding somewhat.\u201cOur study illustrates why we can\u2019t take our eyes off maternal health,\u201d said Dr. Rose L. Molina, an associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive biology at Harvard Medical School and one of the study\u2019s authors.Women need \u201caccess to high-quality care from the moment of conception to a full year after birth,\u201d she added. While there has been a growing emphasis on care in the year after childbirth, \u201cwe\u2019re not there yet.\u201dThe study was based on data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u2019s division of reproductive health, which monitors maternal mortality and identified the risk of so-called later maternal deaths \u2014 those that occur from six weeks to one year after the birth.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25693,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25691"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25694,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25691\/revisions\/25694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}