Cardiac dysfunction caused by hypertension and obesity can play a huge role in maternal mortality, but it's treatable and preventable... If cardiac conditions are left untreated, we are looking at a high-risk pregnancy, even in a young woman. That's why this collaboration is so groundbreaking and so important.
NYC Health + Hospitals launched a new $1.2 million Cardio-Obstetrics program to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity among women of color by focusing on heart disease during and after pregnancy.
The Cardio-Obstetric practice will target patients' heart disease or its risk factors, including hypertension, obesity and diabetes, from the prenatal period for up to a year postpartum.
In New York State, Black women are 4 to 5 times more likely than white women to die during pregnancy or in the year after... More than 1 in 4 of maternal deaths nationwide are due to heart disease.
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