Vital Signs: Death of a Child Raises a Mother's Mortality Risk

Monday, July 9, 2012 - 16:50 in Health & Medicine

In the two years following the death of a child, according to an analysis of census data, the odds of the mother dying increased to more than three times that of mothers whose children survived.

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