A cohort of mostly Black women who developed a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy were 2.4 times more likely to develop hypertension 10 years later, data from a prospective study show.
In an analysis of women who participated in an earlier study that enrolled women with confirmed preeclampsia or gestational hypertension and normotensive controls, researchers also found that differences in noninvasive measures of CV risk were driven mostly by the hypertension diagnosis, regardless of history of a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy.
“There was an incredibly high prevalence of undiagnosed