Black women in New York City died 12 times as often as white women during pregnancy, labor or from complications of labor during the years 2006 to 2010, finds a newly available report by city health authorities.
That disparity is much wider than five years ago, when a similar study found black women were dying seven times as often from the same causes.
The new ratio reflects a dramatic drop in the deaths of the city's pregnant white women and new mothers, when compared with a previous five-year study, authors find. The report did not provide an explanation for the growing disparity.
[For more of this story, written by Rita Henley Jensen, go to http://womensenews.org/story/r...2-times-above-whites]
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