A national population‐based cohort study to investigate inequalities in maternal mortality in the United Kingdom, 2009‐17

Background Disparities have been documented in maternal mortality rates between women from different ethnic, age and socio‐economic groups in the UK. It is unclear whether there are differential changes in these rates amongst women from different groups over time. The objectives of this analysis were to describe UK maternal mortality rates in different age, ethnic and socio‐economic groups between 2009 and 2017, and to identify whether there...