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Overview: We’ve long understood cardiovascular disease, hemorrhage, hypertension, and infection as the leading killers of pregnant patients. A recent analysis challenges that, finding the leading causes are now overdose, homicide, and suicide. Join us as we unpack what this means for clinicians, explore racial and age disparities, and discuss how primary care clinicians can better protect maternal health.

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• Identify unintentional drug overdose and violence (homicide and suicide) as the leading causes of maternal death in the United States from 2018–2023, surpassing traditional obstetric complications
• Describe racial, ethnic, and age-related disparities in pregnancy-associated mortality due to overdose, homicide, and suicide
• Apply an updated, comprehensive approach to screening and counseling pregnant and postpartum patients that incorporates substance use, intimate partner violence, and mental health risk factors

Guest: Mariyan L. Montaque, DNP, FNP-BC Music Credit: Matthew Bugos

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The views expressed in this podcast are those of Dr. Domino and his guests and do not necessarily reflect the views of Pri-Med.