>more people are having children later in life, so we wanted to investigate this question. However, we found that’s not why we’re seeing a spike in the number of maternal deaths,”<p>when we shifted this way in the last 60 years, mortality was decreasing. This wouldn't be my go-to guess.<p>>While this study wasn’t able to explore specific causes of death<p>it's public data in quite a number of places in the world.<p>Generally speaking it's bleeding or blood related things; heart, or blood brain stroke type. Women during birth have the same problems as high G fighter pilots. Gotta tighten all your muscles.<p>>Black individuals are three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related deaths than white individuals.<p>Randomly tacked onto the end. The thing about statistics on race, it's really hard to rule out all the other factors and make conclusions. It's not some sort of allegation that black moms are systematically being killed.