Huge Racial Disparities Found in Deaths Linked to Pregnancy

[Lee Cruz]

African-American, Native American and Alaska Native women are about three times more likely to die from causes related to pregnancy, compared to white women in the United States.

A pregnant woman at a medical appointment at a clinic in Orlando, Fla. 

Credit Zack Wittman for The New York Times

By Roni Caryn Rabin

African-American, Native American and Alaska Native women die of pregnancy-related causes at a rate about three times higher than those of white women, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on ...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/07/health/pregnancy-deaths-.html