Why the study?
Pregnancy complications may unmask underlying subclinical cardiovascular abnormalities and serve as early warning signs for future cardiovascular disease, identifying women who may benefit from intensive risk factor modification.
Are pregnancy-related complications associated with future risk of cardiovascular disease in women?
Are pregnancy-related complications associated with future risk of cardiovascular disease in women?
Pregnancy complications are important sex-specific risk factors that can identify women who may benefit from early cardiovascular risk factor modification.
Supports incorporating pregnancy history into women's CVD risk assessment; leaves open whether targeted interventions improve outcomes.
Pregnancy is a time of significant hemodynamic, metabolic, and hormonal stress that can unmask underlying subclinical cardiovascular abnormalities, and pregnancy-related complications may serve as early warning signs for future risk of cardiovascular disease. The increased recognition of these sex-specific risk factors could identify women who may benefit from more intensive risk factor modification to reduce morbidity and mortality later in life. In this review, we describe several pregnancy-related complications that have been associated with the risk of cardiovascular disease, including hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, gestational diabetes mellitus, preterm delivery, and pregnancy loss. Pregnancy-associated risk factors must be identified to fully assess a woman's future cardiovascular risk and may influence strategies for risk reduction.
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