Pregnancy is not supposed to kill us. Yet I almost died—twice.

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  • Author(s): GARAY, ELISSA
  • Source:
    Good Housekeeping. Oct2021, Vol. 272 Issue 8, p53-57. 5p. 8 Color Photographs.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      PULMONARY embolism; ANTICOAGULANTS; LUNGS; MORTALITY; HEART
    • Abstract:
      In this article author talks about women health crisis that is very modern and largely preventable. Topics include considered that pulmonary embolism involves blood clots that journey from the legs or other body parts through the heart before getting lodged in an artery in the lungs; and reports that America's maternal mortality rate is higher than that in other high-income developed countries.