Pregnancy complications and long-term risk of cardiovascular events in women with structural heart disease.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To determine the frequency of pregnancy complications and their association with the risk of cardiovascular outcomes in women with structural heart disease (SHD).

Methods

This nationwide registry-based cohort study included women in Sweden with SHD (pulmonary arterial hypertension, congenital heart disease or acquired valvular heart disease) with singleton births registered in the national Medical Birth Register (MBR) between 1973 and 2014. Exposures were pregnancy complications; pre-eclampsia/gestational hypertension (PE/gHT), preterm birth and small for gestational age (SGA) collected from MBR. The outcomes were cardiovascular mortality and hospitalisations defined from the Cause of Death Register and the National Patient Register. Cox regression models were per

SUBMITTER: Cederlof ET 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11404238 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature