Thursday, December 9, 2010

The racial gap that has long been seen in pregnancy-related deaths shows no signs of narrowing

Between 1998 and 2005, the death rate among black women was 37.5 per 100,000 live births, versus 10.2 per 100,000 among white women and 13.4 per 100,000 for all other racial groups combined.

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