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More Women With Heart Disease Are Having Babies

The inevitable result of the childhood obesity epidemic is severe health issues appearing more frequently in adults. Futurity reports that this has resulted in a massive increase in heart disease in pregnant women. The numbers are simply stunning. Researchers found that instances of women with heart disease giving birth surged 24 percent between 2003 and 2012. They also found that heart disease is the leading cause of death in pregnant women. We have an epidemic of heart disease in this...