Risk of maternal mortality in women with severe anaemia during pregnancy and post partum: a multilevel analysis

Summary: Background: Anaemia affects as many as half of all pregnant women in low-income and middle-income countries, but the burden of disease and associated maternal mortality are not robustly quantified. We aimed to assess the association between severe anaemia and maternal death with data from...

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Main Authors: Jahnavi Daru, MBBS, Javier Zamora, ProfPhD, Borja M Fernández-Félix, MSc, Joshua Vogel, PhD, Olufemi T Oladapo, FWACS, Naho Morisaki, PhD, Özge Tunçalp, PhD, Maria Regina Torloni, PhD, Suneeta Mittal, MD, Kapila Jayaratne, MD, Pisake Lumbiganon, ProfMD, Ganchimeg Togoobaatar, PhD, Shakila Thangaratinam, ProfPhD, Khalid S Khan, ProfMSc
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-05-01
Series:The Lancet Global Health
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214109X18300780