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American women fare far worse in pregnancy-related deaths than women in comparable countries. Women in the United States are more than twice as likely to die of pregnancy than women in Canada, data from the Canadian government data and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows.
Heart disease and stroke cause the majority of pregnancy-related deaths in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and decades of research has shown that these killers disproportionately affect Black women. Black women are 3 times as likely to die from pregnancy than white women, CDC data shows.
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DALLAS, Dec. 16, 2020 Significant racial disparities exist in heart-related problems among pregnant and postpartum women in the United States, with Black women having the highest risk of several serious complications, according to research published today in the
Journal of the American Heart Association, an open access journal of the American Heart Association. Clinicians should be aware of the cardiovascular risks associated with pregnancy that, although not common, can result in serious illness and death. Women at increased risk for heart disease should be closely monitored during and even after pregnancy, said Samir R. Kapadia, M.D., senior author of the study and chair of the department of cardiovascular medicine at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio.
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19) in the United States, but the burden of disease from all water sources (drinking, recreational, environmental) and exposure routes (ingestion, contact, inhalation) has not been estimated. We present an estimate of the burden of waterborne disease in the United States that includes gastrointestinal, respiratory, and systemic disease; accounts for underdiagnosis; and includes all water sources and exposure routes.
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We defined waterborne disease as disease in which water was the proximate vehicle for exposure to an infectious pathogen. Thus, diseases such as Legionnaires’ disease (typically transmitted via inhaled water droplets containing
Legionella bacteria) were considered waterborne. In contrast, arboviral diseases like malaria, for which standing water can increase the population of mosquitoes that transmit the parasite that causes malaria, were not considered waterborne. Algal toxins and chemical exposures were not considere
Hospitalizations among adults with chronic kidney disease in the United States: A cohort study
Sarah J. Schrauben ,
Affiliations Renal, Electrolyte-Hypertension Division, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America