Study Finds Drug Overdoses, Suicide Common Causes Of Death Among Women Who Die Within One Year Of Childbirth

HealthDay (6/18, Reinberg) reports a study based on over one million California hospital records found nearly 20 percent of deaths among women who died within a year of giving birth were due to drug overdose or suicide from 2010 to 2012. The research also indicated “about 75% of those who died had visited an emergency department at least once after giving birth.” The research was published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

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— “Drug Overdoses, Suicide Are Risk for New Mothers: Study, “Steven Reinberg, HealthDay, June 18, 2019

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