Cardiovascular Disease-Related Emergency Department Visits and Hospitalization among Women with Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The risk of developing cardiovascular disease is higher for women who had hypertensive disorders of pregnancy than for women without a history of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. However, it is unknown whether the emergency department visits and hospitalization differ between women with a history of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and women without hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. The objective of this study was to characterize and compare cardiovascular disease-related emergency department visits, hospitalization rates, and diagnoses in women with a history of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy with those in women without.

Methods

This study included participants from the California Teachers Study (N=58,718) with a history of pregnancy and data fro

SUBMITTER: Avorgbedor F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11421440 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature