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Black women almost twice as likely to suffer stillbirths, study shows

Black women are almost twice as likely to experience a stillbirth as white women according to ‘alarming’ research which experts said show the effects of racial and social inequalities in society.Researchers from Queen Mary University London reviewed data from more than 15 million pregnancies across 13 studies run in countries including the US and UK.While stillbirths are rare complications, the study found black women were 1.5 to two times more likely to experience them.The researchers also foun