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Systemic racism plays role in much higher maternal mortality rate among Black women
medicalxpress ^ | 10/23/2022

Posted on 10/23/2022 7:25:08 AM PDT by devane617

Black women have a 53% increased risk of dying in the hospital during childbirth, no matter their income level, type of insurance or other social determinants of health, suggesting systemic racism seriously impacts maternal health, according to an 11-year analysis of more than 9 million deliveries in U.S. hospitals being presented at the Anesthesiology 2022 annual meeting.

"This study is the most up-to-date and extensive study—factoring in various states, insurance types, hospital types and income levels—to determine that the much higher maternal mortality rate among Black women often cannot be attributed to differences in health, income or access to care alone," said Robert White, M.D., M.S., lead author of the study and assistant professor of anesthesiology at Weill Cornell Medicine, New York. "Clearly there's a need for legislation to improve access to health care throughout pregnancy and improve funding among safety-net hospitals. But it's also essential that hospitals train their employees to provide culturally appropriate care, offer translation services and conduct implicit bias association testing."

Causes of maternal death include the development of blood clots, heart failure, postpartum hemorrhage (excessive blood loss) and pre-eclampsia (extremely high blood pressure). The U.S. maternal mortality rate of 17.3 deaths per 100,000 births is higher than any other developed nation, with a huge disparity gap between Black and white mothers. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines maternal mortality as death during pregnancy, delivery or within one year of the end of the pregnancy. This study focused on maternal death during childbirth in a hospital.

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To: devane617

Heavy sigh

Behold the classic

Oxymoron

noun
a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g. faith unfaithful kept him falsely true ).

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” no matter their income level, type of insurance or other social determinants of health, suggesting systemic racism”

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I thought systemic racism

WAS

A social determinant.

They want it both ways .

2 tiered logic to go with 2 tier justice system.


41 posted on 10/23/2022 8:18:24 AM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: PGR88

And it’s never Democrats’ fault.


42 posted on 10/23/2022 8:18:42 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: devane617; MotorCityBuck
Start here. Many people suffer from Affinity Bias, or a Bias for people who look and act like us. Fair enough.

The downside to this Bias is that such people have a blind spot. It often leads to idiotic statements like this one from yesterday.

Ignorance is bliss, until it kills people. A great example of this was seen in autonomous navigation systems, where researchers (undoubtedly woke leftists) failed to load a meaningful quantity of non-white images into their calibration datasets. The result was that these systems would lead to cars plowing into non-whites or groups of whites. The systems also had trouble at night.

Why? Because the wokester data scientists, despite their diversity-dripping social media posts, biased their models. I don't believe it was intentional...they're just stupid.

There is a similar problem in medicine. For years, a bigly amount of research and design as well as protocols were based on males. The protocols for females were extrapolated statically from the male data. This is patently ridiculous, and is as stupid as mandating vaccines on children based on testing on adults. Again, Affinity bias in action.

This excess mortality in black mothers isn't institutional racism. This is all due to physician researchers (who likely are Bidet fans) having diversity on their lips and ignorance in their minds.

Affinity Bias. It's a problem, notably when weaponized in medicine.

43 posted on 10/23/2022 8:19:39 AM PDT by DoodleBob ( Gravity’s waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: MNDude

Cain was told that his brother’s blood was crying out to the Lord from the ground ... what must it mean for the “ground” that innocent blood is crying out from to be the womb?


44 posted on 10/23/2022 8:20:13 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: devane617

Meth, Fetanyl, Coke, etc. Were happy to take the blame.


45 posted on 10/23/2022 8:20:56 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Who was Ashli Babbitt?)
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To: PGR88
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46 posted on 10/23/2022 8:21:09 AM PDT by fireman15 (Irritating people are the grit from which we fashion our pearl. I provide the grit. You're Welcome.)
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To: devane617

My sister was an ER Nurse in Detroit. Certain tasks could only be done by black nurses, such as having to tell some women they “have to keep themselves clean”.


47 posted on 10/23/2022 8:27:55 AM PDT by Mark was here
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To: devane617

train their employees to provide culturally appropriate care
what the F does this mean


48 posted on 10/23/2022 8:28:48 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: devane617

“Black women have a 53% increased risk of dying in the hospital during childbirth, no matter their income level, type of insurance or other social determinants of health...”


“Social determinants of health”? How about actual health? Is it possible that black women of child-bearing age, as a group, are not as healthy as women of other races?


49 posted on 10/23/2022 8:32:13 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: devane617

Suggesting *race*, not *racism* seriously impacts maternal health.

So many factors to consider in the difference in health between black women and women of other races that it would take a gigantic study over decades.

Blaming it on “racism” is a scientific and medical cop out.


50 posted on 10/23/2022 8:32:35 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("All he had was a handgun. Why did you think that was a threat?" --Rittenhouse Prosecutor)
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To: devane617

Surely this has nothing to do with the average mass of many ghettopotami ?


51 posted on 10/23/2022 8:33:56 AM PDT by tomkat ( SOTU = FUBAR)
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To: devane617
The logic of this is the same as the mythical discrimination in lending to POC.

  1. Denial of a loan to an unqualified POC is racial profiling.
  2. Approval of a loan to an unqualified POC is predatory lending.
See how that works?
52 posted on 10/23/2022 8:34:22 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ( We need to “build back better” on the bones and ashes of those forcing us to “Build Back Better.")
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To: MNDude

Anecdotal evidence, but Yes.
My daughter was basically kidnapped by her then boyfriend when she got pregnant and hustled off to Richmond, VA for a same day abortion. Six years later she had a long and hard labor when her son was born.
Doctors downplay the consequences of abortions to women but there are several different problems that can pop up from loss of fertility to scarring of the uterus.


53 posted on 10/23/2022 8:38:39 AM PDT by oldvirginian (When I was a kid I wanted to be older…this is not what I expected)
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To: devane617

There is indeed systemic racism. But it is the democrats practicing it. The # 1 example is abortion, the progs Holy Grail. The dims systematically murder the unborn of those they claim to be the champions of. They cure poverty by eliminating the poor. Very progressive!


54 posted on 10/23/2022 8:44:12 AM PDT by Free in Texas (Celebrate diversity. Own firearms of every caliber. )
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To: devane617

Did they bother to look at weight?

Just asking


55 posted on 10/23/2022 8:51:44 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: MNDude

Yes it can


56 posted on 10/23/2022 8:52:52 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: devane617

These clowns are the direct descendants of the people who originally pushed the existence of aether in physics.


57 posted on 10/23/2022 9:02:40 AM PDT by curious7
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To: devane617

More black people than white die from sickle cell anemia. Does this show racism or a genetic propensity towards sickle cell anemia?

Doctors might do better by investigating physical reason for these “extra” deaths—perhaps there is a higher genetic tendency to these difficulties among black women than white? Etc. Improved translation services won’t help fix that.


58 posted on 10/23/2022 9:08:53 AM PDT by Chicory
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To: euram

The other day I saw a video of a bunch of black women claiming that white women lose weight faster when they are on diets while black women remain fat on the same diet. I guess their argument is that dieting is “racist”

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I do know that the heavy black women with big breasts and hips are a genetic subtype. They start out big. I knew one who was 33 lbs at 9 months. Muscled. That is how they are made. There is a genetic break and I do not remember which gene.


59 posted on 10/23/2022 9:11:55 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Genocide is here. Leftist extremists are spearhheading the Genocide against conservatives. )
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To: dfwgator

Apparently Indians think like white men.

The whole idea of linear vs non-linear thinking is ridiculous. What is non-linear thinking?


60 posted on 10/23/2022 9:14:14 AM PDT by Chicory
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