Medical Xpress October 17, 2024
New findings published in The Lancet Global Health expose substantial global and regional disparities in the cumulative burden of life-threatening maternal morbidity across the female reproductive life span.
The study, co-authored by researchers at the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, is the first to calculate the lifetime risk of maternal near miss for 40 countries spanning Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America from 2010 onwards.
A “maternal near miss” is defined as a woman who survived, but almost died from a life-threatening complication of pregnancy and childbirth. The World Health Organization (WHO) identifies cases of maternal near misses using clinical, laboratory, and lifesaving intervention-based criteria of organ dysfunction such as...
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