The Ohio Department of Health says 186 women died from pregnancy-related causes between 2008 and 2016, a ratio of 14.7 per 100,000 live births.
Black women were more than 2.5 times more likely to die of a pregnancy-related condition than white women. The leading underlying causes were heart conditions, infections, severe bleeding , pre-eclampsia and eclampsia. The data shows 57 percent of the deaths from 2012 to 2016 could have been prevented. Ohio's pregnancy-related mortality ratio is significantly lower than that of the U.S. as a whole.