{"id":213012,"date":"2024-03-19T07:32:34","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T11:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=213012"},"modified":"2024-03-19T09:08:50","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T13:08:50","slug":"explaining-the-death-of-a-41-year-old-tourist-who-had-just-vacationed-in-the-dr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/03\/19\/explaining-the-death-of-a-41-year-old-tourist-who-had-just-vacationed-in-the-dr\/","title":{"rendered":"Explaining the death of a 41-year old tourist who had just vacationed in the DR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Stefanie-Smith-Diario-Libre-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-213092\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Stefanie-Smith-Diario-Libre-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Stefanie-Smith-Diario-Libre-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Stefanie-Smith-Diario-Libre-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Stefanie-Smith-Diario-Libre.png 1160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Reports olf the autopsy to the 41-year-old Indianapolis woman who suffered a medical emergency on board an American Airlines flight that made an emergency landing in Turks &amp; Caicos are that the woman died of natural causes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The brother of the deceased Stefanie Smith who had previously been on vacation in the Dominican Republic convulsed and died from carotid artery dissection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carotid artery dissection is&nbsp;a condition whereby the layers of the carotid artery are spontaneously separated. This potentially compromises blood flow to certain areas of the brain and can lead to a stroke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wthr.com\/article\/news\/local\/indiana\/brother-says-41-year-old-indiana-woman-stefanie-smith-died-natural-causes-flight-dominican-republic\/531-cf9a8eed-6b08-4f38-ae2a-054a98e7a5f2\">WTHR <\/a> <br><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/forums\/threads\/indiana-mother-falls-ill-dies-on-american-airlines-flight-from-dr.409815\/\">DR1 News <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>19 March 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports olf the autopsy to the 41-year-old Indianapolis woman who suffered a medical emergency on board an American Airlines flight that made an emergency landing in Turks &amp; Caicos are that the woman died of natural causes. The brother of the deceased Stefanie Smith who had previously been on vacation in the Dominican Republic convulsed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/03\/19\/explaining-the-death-of-a-41-year-old-tourist-who-had-just-vacationed-in-the-dr\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[330,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213012"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213012"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213093,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213012\/revisions\/213093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}