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Pregnant women in ICU face 12-times higher rate of stillbirth

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Pregnant women admitted to intensive care face significant risks to their own lives as well as a 12-times higher rate of having a stillbirth, research showed.

Researchers from the University of Edinburgh used healthcare databases for more than 760,000 deliveries in hospitals between 2005 and 2018, examining all pregnancies resulting in a live birth, stillbirth

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