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JAMA Network, July 3, 2023

Areport released this spring by the National Center for Health Statistics summarized the strikingly high rates of maternal deaths in the US. In 2021, the US rate of maternal deaths that occurred while pregnant or within 42 days of being pregnant was 32.9 per 100 000 live births—more than 10 times the estimated rates for other high-income countries including Australia, Israel, and Spain, which all hover between 2 to 3 deaths per 100 000 live births.

Jennifer Abbasi, JAMA Network

JAMA. Published online July 3, 2023. doi:10.1001/jama.2023.11328

Obstetricians and Gynecologists, June 19, 2023

Special Issue: Racism & Reproductive Health: Paving a Path to Health Equity

Obstetrics & Gynecology is now accepting videos for the racism and reproductive health special issue. We received several submissions with innovative, exciting ideas with great potential to affect positive change.

Upload to Editorial Manager​ as a Special Issue Video and include names and institutions of authors, one paragraph explaining the video, and the video. Submissions due by July 17, 2024.

JAMA Network, June 2, 2023

Jamie R. Daw, PhD1; Elizabeth A. Howell, MD, MPP2
JAMA Netw Open. 2023;6(6):e2316542. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.16542

JAMA Network, May 30, 2023

This study involving 2 large, community-based, longitudinal, cohort studies whether adding 2 markers—coronary artery calcium score and polygenic risk score—to traditional risk factor–based scores improves predicting coronary heart disease among middle-aged to older adults.

JAMA. 2023; 329(20):1768-1777. doi: 10.1001/jama.2023.7575

Sadiya S. Khan, MD, MSc; Wendy S. Post, MD; Xiuqing Guo, PhD; Jingyi Tan, MA; Fang Zhu, MSc, MPH; Daniel Bos, MD, PhD; Bahar Sedaghati-Khayat, MSc; Jeroen van Rooij, PhD; Aaron Aday, MD, MS; Norrina B. Allen, PhD; Maxime M. Bos, PhD; André G. Uitterlinden, PhD; Matthew J. Budoff, MD; Donald M. Lloyd-Jones, MD, ScM; Jonathan D. Mosley, MD, PhD; Jerome I. Rotter, MD; Philip Greenland, MD; Maryam Kavousi, MD, PhD

The New York Times, May 28, 2023

Recent research shows that most pregnancy-related deaths occur in the year after a baby is born. The discovery is changing how doctors care for new mothers.

“Our approach to birth has been that the baby is the candy and the mom’s the wrapper, and once the baby is out of the wrapper we cast it aside…We need to recognize that the wrapper is a person — moms are getting really sick and dying.” https://nytimes.com/2023/05/28/health/pregnancy-childbirth-deaths.html @astuebe

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