Discuss how Maternal Mortality affects African American women at a much higher rate than white women.

Maternal Mortality affects African American women at a much higher rate than white women. The most common causes of maternal mortality in the U.S. are:

Hemorrahage
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0002937818303831?via%3Dihub
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S014600051100156X?via%3Dihub
https://www.propublica.org/article/black-women-disproportionately-suffer-complications-of-pregnancy-and-childbirth-lets-talk-about-it
https://www.verywellfamily.com/postpartum-hemorrhage-2753097
https://www.ajog.org/article/S0002-9378(18)30383-1/pdf

High Blood Pressure & Eclampsia

Pregnant African-American women far more likely to have pre-eclampsia than white women

https://newsroom.heart.org/news/u-s-born-black-women-at-higher-risk-of-preeclampsia-than-black-immigrants
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4171100/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4782921/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4782921/

Pulmonary Emobolism
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4405792/
https://weillcornell.org/news/what-every-woman-should-know-about-pregnancy-and-pulmonary-embolisms
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7001868/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22907272/
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/circulationaha.111.073098

Discuss each; how they happen AND how they can be prevented especially in black women.

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