A Ten Year Audit of Maternal Mortality: Millennium Development Still a Distant Goal.

WHO categorizes maternal deaths into direct, indirect and unknown/undetermined.[ 1 ] PE/E was the most common direct cause (n = 158, 24.4%) in our study, same as reported by Igwegbe;[ 12 ] whereas PE/E demonstrated a decreasing trend in the audit by You et al .[ 13 ] Hypertensive disorders ranged second in the report by Gumanga et al .,[ 14 ] while Prakash et al .[ 15 ] found it responsible in only 12% cases.

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