Olympian Tori Bowie's Shocking -- And Preventable -- Cause Of Death Revealed
16.06.2023 - 06:53
/ perezhilton.com
Tori Bowie‘s cause of death has been confirmed one month after her sudden death was announced.
According to an autopsy report obtained by The New York Times on Tuesday, the 32-year-old track and field star, born Frentorish Bowie, was eight months pregnant and in labor at the time of her death. The report listed respiratory distress and eclampsia as “possible complications” that caused the Olympic gold medalist’s passing. So tragic.
If you don’t know, eclampsia is considered a medical emergency and is a rare condition that causes seizures in pregnant people and can even lead to a coma or death. With timely treatment, the condition is not always fatal. It’s unclear if Tori was aware she was suffering from the diagnosis or not.
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Eclampsia is a more serious form of preeclampsia, which happens when a woman who previously had normal blood pressure develops “high blood pressure and protein in her urine or other problems after 20 weeks of pregnancy,” per the CDC. It is one of the leading causes of maternal death, causing around 15 percent of maternal deaths worldwide. Wow!
Via the Cleveland Clinic, less than three percent of patients with preeclampsia progress to eclampsia. Unfortunately, Black women in the US are three to four times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than white women, per the CDC. Also, a study by Johns Hopkins Medicine in the same year discovered Black women born in the US are at a higher risk for preeclampsia than Black women who have immigrated to the country. So, so unfortunate!
At the time of the athlete’s death, her management company, Icon Management Inc., mourned her loss via Twitter, saying:
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