TABLE 1—

Prevalence and Case-Fatality Rates and Black–White Rate Ratios (With 95% Confidence Intervals [CIs]) for 5 Selected Pregnancy Complications, By Race: United States, 1988–1999

	Prevalence Ratea			Case-Fatality Rateb
	Black	White	Black–White Ratio (95% CI)	Black	White	Black–White Ratio (95% CI)
Preeclampsia	3176	2554	1.2 (0.8, 1.7)	73.5	27.4	2.7 (1.8, 3.6)
Eclampsia	131	83	1.6 (0.9, 2.3)	1536.3	626.2	2.5 (1.4, 3.5)
Abruption	970	895	1.1 (0.7, 1.5)	58.4	21.3	2.8 (1.8, 3.7)
Placenta previa	454	433	1.1 (0.7, 1.4)	40.7	17.3	2.4 (1.5, 3.2)
Postpartum hemorrhage	1428	1890	0.8 (0.5, 1.0)	68.3	21.0	3.3 (2.1, 4.4)

Note. NHDS = National Hospital Discharge Survey.

^aPrevalence rates were calculated as the number of pregnant women with the condition (obtained from the NHDS) per 100 000 live births (obtained from National Center for Health Statistics natality files).

^bCase-fatality rates were calculated as the number of deaths attributable to that condition (obtained from the Pregnancy Mortality Surveillance System) per 100 000 women with that condition (obtained from the NHDS).