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We thus sought to study the at-risk, non-Hispanic Black population as its own cohort to identify factors most associated with severe maternal morbidity (SMM).<\/jats:p><jats:p>\n            Study Design\u2003This is a population-based retrospective case\u2013control study of all live births in the United States between 2017 and 2019 using birth records obtained from the National Center for Health Statistics. The primary outcome for this study was to determine demographic, social, medical, and obstetric factors associated with maternal morbidity among NHBP who did and did not experience an SMM event. Multivariable logistic regression was used to estimate the adjusted odds ratio between each individual factor and the outcome of SMM among NHBP.<\/jats:p><jats:p>\n            Results\u2003Of the 1,624,744 NHBP who delivered between 2017 and 2019, 1.1% experienced an SMM event defined as a composite of blood product transfusion, eclamptic seizure, intensive care unit admission, unplanned hysterectomy, and uterine rupture. The rates of these individual SMM events per 10,000 deliveries were 50, 40, 20, 5, and 4 among NHBP, respectively. Among NHBP, factors associated in multivariable regression analysis with SMM in order of strength of association included cesarean delivery, earlier gestational age at delivery, preeclampsia, induction of labor, chronic hypertension, prior preterm birth, lower educational attainment, multifetal gestation, advanced maternal age, pregestational diabetes, and cigarette smoking. The population attributable fraction for cesarean delivery, preterm birth, and pregnancy-induced hypertensive disease for the outcome of SMM were 0.46, 0.23, and 0.07, respectively.<\/jats:p><jats:p>\n            Conclusion\u2003The three factors most associated with SMM among NHBP are potentially avoidable or modifiable by aggressive screening, prevention, and treatment of preeclampsia and preterm birth as well as reducing cesarean rates in this population.<\/jats:p><jats:p>\n            Key Points\n          <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1055\/a-2295-4058","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,3,26]],"date-time":"2024-03-26T23:58:57Z","timestamp":1711497537000},"page":"2063-2071","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Factors Associated with Maternal Morbidity among Black Women in the United States"],"prefix":"10.1055","volume":"41","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0001-1938-5727","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Catrine","family":"Ibrahim Sous","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"William","family":"Moravec","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Emily","family":"DeFranco","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Elizabeth A.","family":"Kelly","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Robert M.","family":"Rossi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"194","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,4,19]]},"reference":[{"issue":"35","key":"ref1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"762","DOI":"10.15585\/mmwr.mm6835a3","article-title":"Racial\/Ethnic Disparities in Pregnancy-Related Deaths - 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