Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy biggest contributors to severe maternal morbidity

WASHINGTON — Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy are the greatest drivers of rising severe maternal morbidity in the U.S., according to data presented at the ACOG Annual Clinical & Scientific Meeting.Severe maternal morbidity, or SMM, “has been rising for years, and we kept describing the trend without explaining it,” Tetsuya Kawakita, MD, MS, an associate professor of