are 60% more likely to develop the condition than white women<\/a>. <\/p>\nIn New York City, Black women are 5.3 times more likely to die of pregnancy-related causes than white women, and in The Bronx, the disparity is only more devastating. The pregnancy- associated mortality ratio is 84.9 per 100,000 live births in the borough where the largest racial demographics are Hispanic\/Latino and Black, per Bronx Health Start Partnership. And according to experts, the effects of conditions like preeclampsia turn into a lifelong battle. <\/p>\n
\u201cIn my clinical practice at Montefiore, I see the devastating consequences of preeclampsia in The Bronx women every week. The cardiovascular risks don\u2019t stop at delivery \u2014 they follow these women for life,\u201d Dr. Anna Bortnick, MD, Co-Director, MFM\u2013Cardiology Joint Program, Montefiore Einstein, which is partnering with Bronx Healthy Start Partnership, said in a statement. \u201cCommunity education and early intervention are our most powerful tools.\u201d <\/p>\n
The three goals of the campaign are to \u201ceducate, activate, and connect\u201d with women in The Bronx. The posters include information about the impact of taking low-dose aspirin, which can reduce the risk of preeclampsia by 24% when taken daily, starting between 12 and 28 weeks of pregnancy, according to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. <\/p>\n
\u201cPreeclampsia is a preventable tragedy,\u201d Christeen Francis, Bronx Healthy Start\u2019s head of Campaign Leadership, said in a statement. Every woman who boards a Bronx bus deserves to know that 81mg of aspirin a day could save her life \u2014 and the life of her child. That\u2019s what this campaign is about.\u201d<\/p>\n
Campaign organizers also hope to spread awareness by partnering with local community establishments to give short presentations about preeclampsia and to connect Bronx women to the right prenatal care, health providers, and cardiovascular health resources for life post-delivery. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bus campaign is fighting back against shocking maternal mortality rates in The Bronx\u2014the highest in New York…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[61390,54255,128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-234575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-black-maternal-health","tag-black-maternal-mortality","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}