Why the study?
Does preterm delivery increase later maternal cardiovascular disease risk?
Does preterm delivery increase later maternal cardiovascular disease risk?
Preterm delivery is associated with increased long-term maternal CVD risk, which is only partially explained by traditional vascular and metabolic factors.
Preterm birth history may inform maternal CVD risk awareness; hypothesis-generating for residual mechanisms and needs prospective validation.
These results suggest that vascular and metabolic factors account for some but not all of the increased prevalence of CVD among women many years after a preterm birth.
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