section_path: Complications
section_name: Complications
paragraph_text: Complications
  
  Each year, ill health as a result of pregnancy is experienced (sometimes permanently) by more than 20 million women around the world. In 2016, complications of pregnancy resulted in 230,600 deaths down from 377,000 deaths in 1990. Common causes include bleeding (72,000), infections (20,000), hypertensive diseases of pregnancy (32,000), obstructed labor (10,000), and pregnancy with abortive outcome (20,000), which includes miscarriage, abortion, and ectopic pregnancy.
  
  The following are some examples of pregnancy complications:
  
  There is also an increased susceptibility and severity of certain infections in pregnancy.