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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>> That’s because whenever they throw down logic, they replace it with the sort of magic thinking that produces only chaos and dissolution, and in the end boils down to “think and do X because the Big Guy with the weapon said to.”
Exactly.
Well believe me, I’ve debugged code that was written by “non-linear” thinkers.
Which is a result of the state of the mother’s health. It’s not the doing of the medical community causing it.
That speaks volumes on so many levels.
High blood pressure happens to be about 50% higher in blacks as well. Obesity is only 20% higher, so there very well could just be a racial component in high blood pressure.
In other news, obesity is a sign of poverty.
“ High blood pressure happens to be about 50% higher in blacks as well. Obesity is only 20% higher, so there very well could just be a racial component in high blood pressure.”
For reasons like this, I am in favor of keeping statistics by race for medical research but not for anything else. Other statistics by race only benefit the bean counters and the race hustlers. They do nothing to bring about benefits for the country or for individual liberty or opportunity.
Agreed.
Hard to put the genie back in the toothpaste tube, however.
There it is.
We don’t know the cause so it must be racism!
Oh yeah. Racism by Whites is responsible for every bad thing in the world. Do they really expect anyone to believe this crap?
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