Understanding the Rural and Racial Disparities in Pre-Pregnancy Hypertension: Important Considerations in Maternal Health Equity

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¹ Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland. Electronic address: gsharma8@jhmi.edu.
² Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
³ Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.

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Garima Sharma et al. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2020.

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. 2020 Dec 1;76(22):2620-2622.

doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2020.09.602. Epub 2020 Nov 9.

¹ Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland. Electronic address: gsharma8@jhmi.edu.
² Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
³ Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.

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Keywords: disparities; hypertension; maternal morbidity; race/ethnicity; rural.

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Author Disclosures The authors have reported that they have no relationships relevant to the contents of this paper to disclose.

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