Racial and Rural-Urban Disparities in Maternal Cardiac Disease Care in North Carolina: A Call to Action

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Analyzes cardiac-specific severe maternal morbidity of rural and urban, as well as Black and White, populations using data from the 2019 North Carolina State Inpatient Database. Provides statistics on delivery hospitalizations in North Carolina, including births with preexisting maternal cardiac disease, maternal cardiac disease outcomes, and patient characteristics. Discusses disparities in comorbidities, cardiac categories, and health outcomes.

Julia M. Moyett, Linda M. Zambrano Guevara, Divya P. Mallampati, et al.

North Carolina Medical Journal, 84(4), 249-256

07/2023

Cardiovascular disease · Maternal health and prenatal care · Rural-urban differences · North Carolina