Boston—An analysis of a nationwide inpatient database shows that Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) parturients have a higher maternal mortality rate than white parturients.
“This is important because AAPIs are the largest growing population of the ethnic and racial minority groups in the United States,” said lead author Maryam Siddiqui, MD, a general obstetrician and gynecologist in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Chicago Medicine.