Women with a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy are 63% more likely to experience a CVD event in the decades after delivery compared with normotensive women, independent of shared risk factors like prepregnancy BMI and parental CVD history.
The relationship between hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and future maternal CVD has been well documented, but only a few previous studies were able to adjust for shared prepregnancy risk factors or examine these associations with average follow-up of more than 30 years after first birth, according to Jennifer J. Stuart, ScD, associate epidemiologist