Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy, Preterm Delivery, and Infant Size: Which Mothers Have Highest Cardiovascular Disease Mortality?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Research on new-onset hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) and long-term maternal cardiovascular disease (CVD) death has focused on mothers of small-for-gestational-age infants rather than large-for-gestational-age infants.

Objectives

We further explored this focus by investigating CVD death in mothers with HDP by gestational age at delivery across the full spectrum of infant birth size.

Methods

We used data from the Medical Birth Registry of Norway, the Norwegian National Population Register, and the Norwegian Cause of Death Registry, with information on mothers giving birth 1967-2020. This data was used to predict CVD death in the decades following pregnancy.

Results

We found the lowest CVD mortality among mothers with no HDP, term delivery, a

SUBMITTER: Wyatt S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12391857 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature