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maternal mortality rate |
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maternal mortality rate [mə′tərn·əl mȯr′tal·əd·ē ‚rāt] (medicine) The number of deaths reported as due to puerperal causes in a calendar year per 100 live births reported in the same year and place. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| One in two Indigenous women smoke during pregnancy and maternal death rates are more than five times higher compared to non-Indigenous women. Freeman and Barno reported that during the 1957-1958 pandemic, 50% of the deaths from influenza among reproductive-aged women in Minnesota occurred in pregnant women and that influenza was the leading cause of maternal death in Minnesota (20). Other adverse reproductive effects, such as mummified fetuses; lesions on the cervix, uterus, and placenta; and maternal death were also reported by earlier experimental studies reviewed by Fan et al. |
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