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AJR Am J Roentgenol
January 2025
Department of Surgery, the Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
AJR Am J Roentgenol
January 2025
UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA, USA 15213.
PLoS One
January 2025
Duke Center for Policy Impact in Global Health, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America.
Background: Hypertension is the most common primary diagnosis associated with postpartum readmissions within 42 days of delivery hospitalization. In the United States, nearly half of the cases of eclampsia, a severe form of preeclampsia, develop during the postpartum period, and the postpartum onset of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, like antepartum hypertension poses long-term health risks to pregnant individuals, including an increased likelihood of developing overall cardiovascular disease, coronary heart disease, heart failure, and chronic hypertension. In this paper, we estimate the trends in the incidence of readmissions for postpartum hypertension within 42 days of delivery discharge in the US, disaggregated by median household income.
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