New from CDC Authors
Lower Your Risk for the Number 1 Killer of Women
Heart disease is the leading cause of death for women in the United States, killing 314,186 women in 2020—or about 1 in every 5 female deaths. Learn about heart disease and women and what you can do to keep a healthy heart.
Maternal Death Surveillance Efforts: Notification and Review Coverage Rates in 30 Low-Income and Middle-Income Countries, 2015-2019
Performance of maternal death surveillance and response relies on the system’s ability to identify and notify all maternal deaths and its ability to review all maternal deaths by a committee. Unified definitions for indicators to assess these functions are lacking. This study aims to estimate notification and review coverage rates in 30 countries between 2015 and 2019 using standardized definitions.
Status of Malaria in Pregnancy Services in Madagascar 2010-2021: A Scoping Review
Malaria in pregnancy (MiP) increases the risk of poor maternal and infant outcomes. A scoping review was conducted to determine the breadth and depth of information available during 2010-2021 about Madagascar's MiP activities and to identify barriers and facilitators to MiP interventions uptake.
Malaria in Pregnancy (Mip) Studies Assessing the Clinical Performance of Highly Sensitive Rapid Diagnostic Tests (HS-RDT) for Plasmodium Falciparum Detection
The recent development of a highly sensitive rapid diagnostic test (HS-RDT) for Plasmodium falciparum has prompted questions over whether it could improve the diagnosis of malaria in pregnancy and pregnancy outcomes in malaria endemic areas. This landscape review collates studies addressing the clinical performance of the HS-RDT.
Comparison of Current World Health Organization Guidelines with Physiologically Based Serum Ferritin Thresholds for Iron Deficiency in Healthy Young Children and Nonpregnant Women Using Data from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
Current WHO serum ferritin (SF) thresholds for iron deficiency in children and women are derived from expert opinion based on radiometric assays in use decades ago. Using a contemporary immunoturbidimetry assay, higher thresholds were identified from physiologically based analyses. This study examined relationships of SF using data from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
Association Between Influenza Vaccination During Pregnancy and Infant Influenza Vaccination
This study conducted a retrospective analysis of individuals aged 15-49 years who were continually privately insured from August 2017 to May 2019 and had singleton live births between September 2017 and February 2018 and their infants to examine the association between influenza vaccination during pregnancy and infant influenza vaccination.
Systematic Review: Polysubstance Prevalence Estimates Reported during Pregnancy, US, 2009–2020
The objective of this systematic review is to describe polysubstance studies and their prevalence estimates among pregnant people in the US.
