Women with rheumatic heart disease in low- and middle-income countries face profound societal stigma and misconceptions that severely limit their use of contraception and safe anticoagulation during childbearing years.
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Stigma may undermine contraception counseling despite advice in RHD patients on warfarin; leaves open effective interventions to address misconceptions.
Chang et al. (2018) studied this question.
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