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Why Medicaid should cover blood pressure cuffs for pregnant and postpartum women

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Why Medicaid should cover blood pressure cuffs for pregnant and postpartum women
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Self-monitoring with a home blood pressure cuff can improve outcomes for women who are pregnant and in the immediate postpartum period. (Getty image)Every year, thousands of American families are devastated by a maternal death that could have been prevented. Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy account for some of the leading causes of these tragedies — a silent, often undetected spectrum of illness that can occur during pregnancy or after childbirth. Yet there’s a simple, affordable tool that ca

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