Study: Pregnant Women at Higher Risk for Serious Car Accidents

May 15, 2014

Donald Redelmeier, MD, a physician in the University of Toronto Department of Medicine and a researcher at the Institute for Clinical Evaluation Sciences (ICES), is the study’s lead author. He says that pregnant women frequently ask him about the safety of activities like air travel, scuba diving, and hot tubs, but most of them overlook traffic crashes, which are a greater threat during pregnancy.

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