Trajectories of cardiovascular risk predict pregnancy outcomes: The Bogalusa Heart Study and the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Life course patterns of change in risk-trajectories-affect health.

Objectives

To examine how trajectories of cardiovascular risk factors are associated with pregnancy and birth outcomes.

Methods

Data from two cohort studies participating in the International Childhood Cardiovascular Consortium-The Bogalusa Heart Study (BHS; started in 1973, N = 903 for this analysis) and the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study (YFS; started in 1980, N = 499) were used. Both followed children into adulthood and measured cardiovascular risk factors, including body mass index (BMI), systolic and diastolic blood pressure (SBP/DBP), total, lipoprotein (LDL)- and high density lipoprotein (HDL)-cholesterol and serum triglycerides. Discrete mixture modelling was used to divide

SUBMITTER: Harville EW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10782826 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature