‘It ignores the reality’: experts react to controversial US maternal health study

Dr. Linda Genen, Chief Medical Officer at ProgenyHealth, described the world of data analysis and reporting as challenging, and said that it is frequently hard to have consensus around methodology. “The article and resulting statements by the CDC and ACOG are case in point. One study alone does not reverse a body of research,” she explained. Regardless of the various reporting approaches, she said, the United States continues to have a problem that it should strive to solve.