When the once prestigious science publisher like Nature again uses terms like "pregnant person" or "pregnant people" instead of woman/women it is disgusting! It is so demeaning to women!
The underlying Nature Communication research article also avoids woman/women in it's abstract by using "maternal", "pregnancy", "maternal age population" and "individual".
"A simple blood test can predict with 99% accuracy whether a pregnant person will develop certain cardiovascular complications. The test by biotech company Mirvie analyses RNA transcripts of genes that have been linked to the cardiovascular disorder pre-eclampsia, which is caused by a faulty placenta. Catching pre-eclampsia early could allow pregnant people at risk of the disease to take precautions such as lowering their blood pressure. “We can narrow it down to about one in four pregnancies that are truly at high risk, and that’s a big step,” ..."
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