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Heart attacks during pregnancy are on the rise: "We don't exactly understand why"
February 7, 2020, 8:31 AM
"CBS This Morning's" Morning Rounds is honoring the American Heart Association's "Go Red for Women" day by highlighting how heart disease is a major risk for pregnant women.
Heart disease is known to kill nearly 420,000 women in the U.S. each year, and is the leading cause of maternal deaths. The numbers are even more staggering for African-American mothers, whose risk of dying from heart-related complications is three times higher than for white women.
"We're seeing that there's actually an increase in the number of heart attacks during pregnancy, and that number is going up in the United States," Lenox Hill Hospital cardiologist Dr. Catherine Weinberg told CBS News' Dr. Tara Narula. "We don't exactly understand why. We also sometimes unmask disorders that we didn't realize were present before."
A recent study found that about one in four pregnancy or postpartum deaths are caused by cardiovascular complications – hypertensive disorders in particular affect as many as one in 10 women and cause increased risk of heart failure, heart attack, and stroke...
Heart attacks during pregnancy are on the rise: "We don't exactly understand why"
February 7, 2020, 8:31 AM
"CBS This Morning's" Morning Rounds is honoring the American Heart Association's "Go Red for Women" day by highlighting how heart disease is a major risk for pregnant women.
Heart disease is known to kill nearly 420,000 women in the U.S. each year, and is the leading cause of maternal deaths. The numbers are even more staggering for African-American mothers, whose risk of dying from heart-related complications is three times higher than for white women.
"We're seeing that there's actually an increase in the number of heart attacks during pregnancy, and that number is going up in the United States," Lenox Hill Hospital cardiologist Dr. Catherine Weinberg told CBS News' Dr. Tara Narula. "We don't exactly understand why. We also sometimes unmask disorders that we didn't realize were present before."
A recent study found that about one in four pregnancy or postpartum deaths are caused by cardiovascular complications – hypertensive disorders in particular affect as many as one in 10 women and cause increased risk of heart failure, heart attack, and stroke...