Thursday, 16 September 2010
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1,000 Women Die Daily from Pregnancy Complications
Healthkickers!
How easy was it for you to find the answer to our fill in the blank question?
Congratulations to radicalsounds@xanga for being the first reader to guess right! (While "giving birth" was a close guess, that is just one of the ways that pregnancy-related complications take the lives of women.)
Did you know that about 1,000 women die daily from pregnancy-related complications?According to Medical News Today, despite there being a 34% drop in pregnancy-related deaths, there are still 1,000 women dying each day due to complications.
The four most common complications include:
- Severe bleeding after giving birth
- Infections
- Hypertensive disorders
- Unsafe abortions
It's also shocking to find out that "57% of [the women who died] lived in sub-Saharan Africa, 30% in South Asia, and less than 1% came from developed nations."
Wow.
Are you shocked by these numbers? Did you know that so many women die from pregnancy complications?
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Comments (49)
I hope to help save some of those women with my work in Doctors Without Borders as a midwife.
it's not shocking to me, given that this number also includes undeveloped and 3rd world countries. but it's still sad.
Shocking.
The two times I came closest to dying were both from bleeding...related to my womb. Once from hemorraging after giving birth, the second from internal bleeding after a hysterectomy. I live in the USA. No, I am not surprised.
Life is risky. Creating new life is risky. Death is reality. There is nothing shocking about death. We may attempt to hold it at arms length, but in the end we must embrace it.
How many people a day die from suicide? from murder? from war?
Honestly, I'd rather go in the giving of life than in the taking.
I know that is not the point of your blog, but that is where my mind went this morning.
wow, i thought it would had been heart disease or something else.
@ExclusiveMe@xanga - Haha! Heart disease? More like 2,500 just in the USA each day. O__o Heart disease kills so many people. It's sad. Usually, cardiovascular disease is preventable. :(
This doesn't surprise me at all for the undeveloped countries. I mean, child birth and pregnancy are hard on your body and without good medical care it's pretty easy to die from it.
@thedommediaries@xanga - I agree about heart disease being sad and preventable, but... people do have to die from something! Now that infectious disease deaths have decreased so much, and cancer treatments have improved, heart disease is pretty much what's left. I expect this to remain the #1 cause of death for a long time, probably the rest of our lifetimes.
@would_you_cry_if_i_died@xanga - Awesome!!! Good for you! :)
not shocking but it is sad..
It's sad, I knew it was mostly in undeveloped nations but wow, 1,000 per day?
1,000 isn't much considering we have like 8 billion people in the world.
it's a lot when you think about it coming from one country or something.
but that's about an average of like what, 10 per country per day or something.
.. not shocking., but yes sad.
ummm... abortion is NOT a pregnancy "complication" ... Abortion is a decision that is made by the mother, that isfull of risks, and ultimately (I believe) a bad decision.
@Winsa@xanga - Whether or not you believe that that abortion is right or wrong, abortion only occurs to those who are pregnant.. thus making it pregnancy-related complication.
I'm definitely surprised by this, since it never crossed my mind that women are still dying from pregnancy-related issues.... I mean I guess I've heard of women having infections and complications, but I didn't realize so many people still died from it. :(
poverty, lack of knowledge and skilled doctors.
@msenergydrink - Since abortion has to do with TERMINATING a pregnancy, I wouldn't call it a pregnancy complication. The only things I would consider to be complications during pregnancy would be natural things involving the baby, and your carrying it.
If the baby is being KILLED because of your own decision, I would guess that often there are complications, yes.
@Winsa@xanga - Yet look up the statistics, the risk involved in actually giving birth are way higher.
@Winsa@xanga - Holy crap. I cannot believed they are including abortions in the women who die from pregnancy complications. That's like drinking poison to kill the baby and dying yourself, and calling it a "complication". Unbelievable.
@Gorrific@xanga - I understand that. I was never debating that fact. However, that could be because of the fact that many more women still chose to HAVE the baby, instead of abort it. *shrug*
@NightCometh@xanga - The whole thing is ridiculous to me.
A PREGNANCY complication by definition is something that puts you and the baby/fetus at risk... If you were having a complication at that point, you wouldn't call up a friend and say, "Hey, I'm having PREGNANCY complications" ... you'd say, "I'm having an abortion and there is a problem..."
OI... people...
@Winsa@xanga - @NightCometh@xanga - Apparently neither of you have heard of spontaneous abortions which cause far more problems than elective abortions and both are related to pregnancy and count as pregnancy complications. That is just like saying we should not include chemo- and radiation-treatment related deaths when talking about cancer stats.
Not shocked at all. There are aprox. 6 billion people in the world. Every second, 1.8 people die on this earth. There are 86,400 seconds in a day. (Read: 155,520 people die each day)
And if you consider the living conditions of people in those countries, filth, unregulated water and food sources, famine and disease then I think 1,000 is pretty low.
I say yay for that less then 1% in developed nations. Shows we are doing something right....
@snarkius@xanga - I know what a spontaneous abortion is. You're missing the point. A regular abortion, in which the mother DECIDES to terminate that pregnancy, should NOT fall under a "pregnancy complication" because it has nothing to do with "pregnancy" it has to do with "terminating" a pregnancy. Which means deciding to KILL a fetus, which means it doesn't fall under the category of something that puts the mother and fetus in harms way when it is not warranted.
THAT is what a complication is... something not "wished" ...
@snarkius@xanga - I hope that last sentence isn't seriously part of your argument. Cancer is a deadly disease. Radiation and Chemotherapy are treatments. Pregnancy is not a disease, and abortion is not necessary. The two are unrelated.
@NightCometh@xanga - *high five*
@Winsa@xanga - I am not missing the point. The point I am making is that they include both in the statistics because it is scientifically accurate to do so. Either way, I doubt it would change the statistics much if we went with your way of doing things.