Pregnancy and reproductive risk factors for cardiovascular disease in women

AC O'Kelly, ED Michos, CL Shufelt, JV Vermunt… - Circulation …, 2022 - Am Heart Assoc
Beyond conventional risk factors for cardiovascular disease, women face an additional
burden of sex-specific risk factors. Key stages of a woman's reproductive history may …

Oral contraceptive pills and hypertension: a review of current evidence and recommendations

NA Cameron, CA Blyler, NA Bello - Hypertension, 2023 - Am Heart Assoc
Oral contraceptive pills (OCPs) have been used as effective and popular forms of
contraception since the middle of the last century. By 2019, over 150 million reproductive …

Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and long‐term cardiovascular health: FIGO best practice advice

LC Poon, L Nguyen‐Hoang, GN Smith… - … of Gynecology & …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) are the most common causes of maternal and
perinatal morbidity and mortality. They are responsible for 16% of maternal deaths in high …

[HTML][HTML] Pre-eclampsia and cardiovascular disease: from pregnancy to postpartum

V Giorgione, M Cauldwell… - European Cardiology …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) complicate approximately 10% of pregnancies.
In addition to multiorgan manifestations related to endothelial dysfunction, HDP confers an …

Pregnancy complications and long-term mortality in a diverse cohort

SN Hinkle, EF Schisterman, D Liu, AZ Pollack… - Circulation, 2023 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Pregnancy complications are associated with increased risk of development of
cardiometabolic diseases and earlier mortality. However, much of the previous research has …

Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and risk of stroke in US Black women

S Sheehy, HJ Aparicio, N Xu, KA Bertrand… - NEJM …, 2023 - evidence.nejm.org
Background Black women have a disproportionately higher burden of both preeclamptic
pregnancy and stroke compared with White women, but virtually all existing evidence on this …

[HTML][HTML] Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and cardiovascular disease risk across races and ethnicities: a review

RJ Burger, H Delagrange… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Pregnancy is often considered to be a 'cardiometabolic stress-test'and pregnancy
complications including hypertensive disorders of pregnancy can be the first indicator of …

Previous pre‐eclampsia, gestational diabetes mellitus and the risk of cardiovascular disease: A nested case–control study in Sweden

K Hildén, A Magnuson, S Montgomery… - … Journal of Obstetrics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Pre‐eclampsia and gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) are two common
pregnancy complications that affect birth outcomes and are associated with a long‐term risk …

Incident heart failure within the first and fifth year after delivery among women with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and prepregnancy hypertension in a diverse …

AM Malek, DA Wilson, TN Turan, J Mateus… - Journal of the …, 2021 - Am Heart Assoc
Background Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) and pre‐pregnancy hypertension
are associated with increased morbidity and mortality for the mother. Our aim was to …

Adverse maternal fetal environment partially mediates disparate outcomes in non-white neonates with major congenital heart disease

S Santana, S Peyvandi, JM Costello, RJ Baer… - The Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Objective To determine whether differential exposure to an adverse maternal fetal
environment partially explains disparate outcomes in infants with major congenital heart …