Poor neighborhoods, health care barriers are factors for heart disease risk in Black mothers
Living in a disadvantaged neighborhood contributes to a rare form of heart failure known as peripartum cardiomyopathy, a ...
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Maternal Cardiac Deaths Double, Impacting Black Women Most
One study found that Black women were 3 times more likely to die of maternal deaths due to cardiovascular disease than White ...
Woman receives heart transplant after suffering rare condition after childbirth: "Life can stop at any point in time"
Johnson-Dean finally insisted she go to the emergency room. Doctors discovered she was suffering from peripartum cardiomyopathy, a rare condition in which the heart weakens that can happen in the last ...
Becker's Hospital Review29d
Black mothers 3 times more likely to develop heart failure: 3 study notes
Non-Hispanic Black mothers have a 3.4 times higher risk of developing peripartum cardiomyopathy compared to non-Hispanic white mothers, even after adjusting for socioeconomic risk factors and ...
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Poor neighborhoods, health care barriers are factors for heart disease risk in Black mothers
(THE CONVERSATION) Living in a disadvantaged neighborhood contributes to a rare form of heart failure known as peripartum cardiomyopathy, a potentially deadly disease that disproportionately ...
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Poor neighborhoods, health care barriers are factors for heart disease risk in Black mothers
Curisa M. Tucker, University of South Carolina (THE CONVERSATION) Living in a disadvantaged neighborhood contributes to a rare form of heart failure known as peripartum cardiomyopathy, a ...