Pregnancy
Homicide is leading cause of injury deaths among pregnant women in U.S.
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, June 19th, 2005
According to recent research from the United States, "We identified risk factors for pregnancy-associated homicide (women who died as a result of homicide during or within 1 year of pregnancy) in the United States from 1991 to 1999. Pregnancy-associated homicides were analyzed with data from the Pregnancy Mortality Surveillance System at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Six hundred seventeen (8.4%) homicide deaths were reported to the Pregnancy Mortality Surveillance System."
"The pregnancy-associated homicide ratio was 1.7 per...
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