The variety of ladies dying throughout or quickly after being pregnant within the UK has hit the very best ranges for almost twenty years, in line with a brand new research.
It discovered that ladies from black ethnic backgrounds are thrice extra more likely to die in comparison with white ladies and the dying price amongst these from Asian ethnic backgrounds is twice as excessive as that of white ladies.
The knowledge has been compiled in a research led by Oxford Population Health’s National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit.
Professor Marian Knight, who led the research, instructed Sky News there have been "pressures" on models throughout the nation and the entire maternity system wanted to be checked out.
She additionally stated assist round pre-pregnancy well being wanted to be improved to make sure ladies are as "healthy as possible" earlier than having a child.
Read extra on this story: https://news.sky.com/story/maternity-deaths-at-highest-levels-in-20-years-study-finds-13045474
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