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Salihu HM, Salemi JL, Aggarwal A, Steele BF, Pepper RC, Mogos MF, Aliyu MH. Opioid Drug Use and Acute Cardiac Events Among Pregnant Women in the United States. The American journal of medicine. 2018 Jan;131(131). 64-71.e1.
Abstract
Cardiovascular disease remains a leading cause of pregnancy-associated deaths in the United States. The extent to which increasing opioid use among pregnant women contributes to fatal cardiovascular events is unknown. We examined trends in opioid use among pregnant women over the previous decade and the association between changes in temporal trends in opioid drug use and the incidence of acute cardiac events among mothers.