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Originally Posted by ganstaman
If these numbers are true:
And these numbers are true:
Then unless all white women are under or normal weight and all black women are obese, there is something more going on than this:
Are there studies that compare child birth mortality rates by race that controls for weight?
Yes there is poverty, underlying health conditions (linked to poverty but not exclusively) and so on as well.
Lack of optimal emergency healthcare in black neighboors might be part of the co-causal explanations as well (perhaps entirely explained by poverty though).
Keep in mind even at x2.6 (black women mortality rate in childbirth vs other women, the guy wrote 400% but the number is 2.6x, so 260% more, perhaps 400% is rounding 360% dunno) it's still a very rare event so it's more about what happens in those very rare cases, and what can increase propensity for actual death events in those very rare cases.
Lower education might play a role in cases like "you would have been better off going to the hospital sooner but weren't informed that was the case".
For some cases lack of coverage (which is higher among blacks, but as we explained elsewhere almost exclusively as an elective choice except for people between 75 and 100% of the poverty level in 10 states) can be an original co-causeof death in childbirth if the lack of coverage means you don't discover problems that are observable (and a solution can be planned for) before childbirth and you discover them at the end instead.
Ie there are a ton of usual things concurring but obesity is the first main one; rest is the typical problem when trying to call worse outcome in blacks racism. Poverty and education correlate basically with every good outcome in life we can care about, and blacks are poorer and less educated.