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Table 2 Frequency of maternal mortality causes of study subjects (34 studies)

From: Prevalence of maternal mortality causes based on ICD-MM: a systematic review and meta-analysis

First author

Year

Country

N

Maternal mortality causes N (%)

Reference

1. Pregnancy with abortive outcome

2. Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium

3. Obstetric hemorrhage

4. Pregnancy-related infection

5. Other obstetric complications

6. Unanticipated complications of management

7. non-obstetric complications

8. Unknown/undetermined causes of death

9. Coincidental causes

Halder

2014

India

212

14 (6.6)

26 (12.6)

25 (11.8)

27 (12.7)

3 (1.4)

4 (1.9)

102 (48.1)

4 (1.9)

7 (3.3)

[30]

Owolabi

2014

Malawi

54

2 (3.8)

3 (5.7)

17 (32.1)

12 (22.6)

1 (1.9)

0 (0)

13 (24.5)

3 (5.7)

1 (1.9)

[31]

Knight

2016

UK

276

4 (1.4)

10 (3.6)

14 (5.1)

16 (5.8)

43 (15.6)

3) 1.1)

163 (59.1)

0 (0)

23 (8.3)

[27]

Knight

2016

UK

269

8 (3)

9 (3.3)

11 (4.1)

13 (4.8)

44 (16.4)

4 (1.5)

154 (57.2)

0 (0)

26 (9.7)

[27]

Knight

2016

UK

240

6 (2.5)

6 (2.5)

13 (5.4)

8 (3.3)

47 (19.6)

3 (1.3)

131 (54.6)

0 (0)

26 (10.8)

[27]

Mgawadere

2016

Malawi

86

12(14)

10 (1.6)

29 (33.7)

12 (14)

2 (2.3)

1 (1.2)

15 (17.4)

5 (5.8)

0 (0)

[32]

Cim

2017

Turkey

69

0 (0)

18 (45)

11 (27.5)

0 (0)

11 (17.5)

0 (0)

17 (24.6)

0 (0)

12

[33]

Kodan

2017

Suriname

65

2 (3)

9 (14)

13 (20)

6 (9)

11 (17)

0 (0)

21 (32)

3 (5)

0 (0)

[17]

Aikpitanyi

2019

Nigeria

18

0 (0)

1 (5.6)

12 (66.6)

2 (11.1)

3 (16.7)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

[34]

Barzegar

2019

Iran

53

3 (5.7)

7 (13.2)

12 (22.6)

0 (0)

7 (13.2)

0 (0)

24 (45.3)

0 (0)

0 (0)

[35]

Engin-Üstün

2019

Turkey

812

0 (0)

33 (17.2)

35 (18.2)

5 (2.6)

40 (20.9)

0 (0)

77 (40.1)

2 (1)

0 (0)

[28]

Engin-Üstün

2019

Turkey

812

0 (0)

38 (17)

42 (18.8)

9 (4)

23 (10.3)

0 (0)

107 (47.8)

5 (2.2)

0 (0)

[28]

Engin-Üstün

2019

Turkey

812

0 (0)

29 (13.6)

41 (19.2)

14 (6.6)

29 (13.6)

0 (0)

94 (44.3)

6 (2.8)

0 (0)

[28]

Engin-Üstün

2019

Turkey

812

0 (0)

26 (14.2)

28 (151.3)

4 (2.2)

19 (10.4)

0 (0)

94 (51.5)

12 (6.6)

0 (0)

[28]

Sheth

2019

India

295

7 (2.4)

55 (18.6)

71 (241.1)

20 (6.8)

14 (4.7)

6 (2)

105 (35.6)

16 (5.4)

1 (0.3)

[19]

Agrawal

2020

India

382

17 (4.4)

46 (11.9)

42 (11)

20 (5.6)

28 (7.2)

0 (0)

229 (60)

0 (0)

-

[36]

Kumari

2020

India

131

8 (6.1)

41 (31.2)

25 (19)

19 (14.5)

1 (0.8)

0 (0)

37 (28.2 )

0 (0)

0 (0)

[37]

Mohammed

2020

Iraq

206

7 (3.4)

16 (7.8)

65 (31.6)

4 (1.9)

25 (12.1)

4 (1.9)

42 (20.4)

43 (20.9)

-

[38]

Said

2020

Tanzania

99

7 (7.1)

16 (16.2)

38 (38.4)

8 (8.1)

11 (11.1)

6 (6.1)

11 (11.1)

1 (1)

1 (1)

[39]

Sharma

2020

India

42

-

9 (21.4)

5 (11.9)

7 (16.6)

0 (0)

3 (7.1)

18 (42.9)

0 (0)

-

[40]

Akaba

2021

Nigeria

52

4 (7.7)

19 (36.5)

16 (30.7)

9 (17.3)

0 (0)

1 (1.9)

3(5.7)

0 (0)

0 (0)

[41]

Aukes

2021

India, Pakistan, and Mozambique

143

1 (1)

23 (16)

38 (27)

6 (4)

16 (11)

4 (3)

39 (27)

16 (11)

0 (0)

[42]

Ekka

2021

India

142

4 (2.8)

51 (35.9)

37 (26.1)

21 (14.8)

2 (1.4)

2 (1.4)

25 (17.6)

-

-

[43]

Indarti

2021

Indonesia

22

0 (0)

2 (9.1)

2 (9.1)

1 (4.5)

1 (4.5)

3 (13.6)

11 (50)

0 (0)

2 (9.1)

[44]

Jogi

2021

India

112

2 (1.8)

41 (36.6)

29 (25.9)

16 (14.3)

2 (1.8)

2 (1.8)

20 (17.9)

0 (0)

-

[45]

Karimi

2021

Iran

107

2 (1.9)

18 (16.8)

22 (20.6)

12 (11.2)

24 (22.4)

1(0.9)

22 (20.6)

3 (2.8)

3 (2.8)

[5]

Kodan

2021

Suriname

73

2 (3)

7 (10)

13 (18)

6 (8)

13 (18)

0 (0)

21 (29)

3 (4)

8 (11)

[46]

Sarmalkar

2021

India

305

15 (4.9)

42 (13.7)

45 (14.8)

11 (3.6)

9 (2.9)

0 (0)

182 (59.7)

1 (0.3)

-

[47]

Aghajani

2022

Iran

80

0 (0)

9 (11.2)

14 (17.5)

10 (12.5)

4 (5)

2 (2.5)

41 (51.2)

0 (0)

-

[48]

Kea

2022

Ethiopia

48

3 (6)

10 (21)

21 (44)

1 (2)

8 (17)

0 (0)

5 (8)

-

-

[49]

Musarandega

2022

Zimbabwe

325

30 (9.2)

34 (10.5)

64 (19.7)

33 (10.1)

14 (4.3)

5 (1.5)

113 (34.8)

19 (5.8)

13 (4)

[29]

Musarandega

2022

Zimbabwe

137

24 (17.5)

25 (18.2)

34 (24.8)

7 (5.1)

12 (8.7)

1 (0.7)

29 (21.2)

3 (2.2)

2 (1.4)

[29]

Nóbrega

2022

Guinea-Bissau

79

0 (0)

10 (12.6)

35 (44.3)

0 (0)

0 (0)

7 (8.9)

23 (29.1)

4 (5)

-

[16]

Verma

2022

India

135

0 (0)

29 (25.2)

30 (26)

18 (15.7)

5 (4.3)

0 (0)

33 (28.7)

0 (0)

0

[7]