Key result
Poor cardiovascular health is a multifactorial cause of rising US maternal death rates and racial disparities, requiring targeted clinical assessment and treatment postpartum.
Why the study?
Recent increases in US maternal death rates, disparities by race and ethnicity, and poor cardiovascular health as a multifactorial cause prompted this discussion of clinical approaches postpartum.
This review highlights the importance of assessing and treating poor cardiovascular health in the postpartum period to address rising US maternal death rates and disparities.
Rising maternal mortality with racial disparities and CVH links warrants postpartum CVH assessment; leaves optimal targeted strategies open for validation.
This article in the Women’s Health series discusses recent increases in US maternal death rates, disparities in rates by race and ethnicity, poor cardiovascular health (CVH) as one of the multifactorial causes, and clinical approaches to assessing and treating poor CVH postpartum.
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Khan et al. (2023) studied this question. Poor cardiovascular health is a multifactorial cause of rising US maternal death rates and racial disparities, requiring targeted clinical assessment and treatment postpartum.
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