Key result
Optimal prepregnancy cardiovascular health affects <50% of US women and steadily declines across all subgroups.
Population
Pregnant women in the US
Authors
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Alerts clinicians to worsening prepregnancy CVH trends; leaves open targeted interventions to close disparities.
There is a concerning, widespread decline in optimal prepregnancy cardiovascular health among US women across all demographic and socioeconomic subgroups.
Wang et al. (2021) studied this question. Optimal prepregnancy cardiovascular health was found in under half of US pregnant women and declined across all subgroups from 2011 to 2019, with persistent racial and socioeconomic disparities.
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