Pregnancy complications and later vascular ultrasound measures: A cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Pregnancy complications predict or even predispose to later cardiovascular disease in the mother. We examined whether pregnancy complications are associated with post-pregnancy measures of endothelial dysfunction and arterial stiffness.

Study design

Prospective cohort; Data for 847 women female participants in the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns study were linked with the national birth registry. Preterm birth (<37weeks), low birthweight (<2500g), small-for-gestational-age (weight <10th percentile for gestational age), and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy were examined as predictors of later vascular measures.

Main outcome measures

Flow-mediated dilatation (FMD), carotid intima-media thickness (IMT), Young's elastic modulus (YEM), and carotid artery d

SUBMITTER: Harville EW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5726803 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature