Black women in the South face highest rates of hysterectomies | NYGazet

More doctors advocate for alternatives to uterus removal, but the procedure is still more common in Southern states.

Methodology The AJC analyzed hysterectomy prevalence using the CDC’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), the nation’s largest health survey. To obtain the data, reporters queried the CDC’s Web Enabled Analysis Tool for state and natio... [504 chars]