Headline : A common-sense initiative in Boston aims to reduce maternal mortality among Black women

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One of the complications contributing to high U.S. maternal mortality among Black women is preeclampsia. A common-sense initiative in Boston gives women a blood pressure cuff to take home.

Black women in the U.S. are nearly three times more likely than white women to die of pregnancy-related causes. Many serious complications start with high blood pressure. Now one Boston hospital is trying to prevent those problems by helping patients track their blood pressures at home. From member station WBUR in Boston, Priyanka Dayal McCluskey reports.

PRIYANKA DAYAL MCCLUSKEY, BYLINE: With both feet flat on the floor, Kennise Nevers settles into a sofa in her living room. She peels open a blood pressure cuff and straps it around her arm.

MCCLUSKEY: She gets her reading in about a minute.

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