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

• Main Authors: Jahnavi Daru, MBBS (Author), Javier Zamora, ProfPhD (Author), Borja M Fernández-Félix, MSc (Author), Joshua Vogel, PhD (Author), Olufemi T Oladapo, FWACS (Author), Naho Morisaki, PhD (Author), Özge Tunçalp, PhD (Author), Maria Regina Torloni, PhD (Author), Suneeta Mittal, MD (Author), Kapila Jayaratne, MD (Author), Pisake Lumbiganon, ProfMD (Author), Ganchimeg Togoobaatar, PhD (Author), Shakila Thangaratinam, ProfPhD (Author), Khalid S Khan, ProfMSc (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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 t...