Maternal cardiovascular disease risk factors as predictors of preterm birth in California: a case-control study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine whether maternal cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors predict preterm birth.

Design

Case control.

Setting

California hospitals.

Participants

868 mothers with linked demographic information and biospecimens who delivered singleton births from July 2009 to December 2010.

Methods

Logistic regression analysis was employed to calculate odds ratios for the associations between maternal CVD risk factors before and during pregnancy (including diabetes, hypertensive disorders and cholesterol levels) and preterm birth outcomes.

Primary outcome

Preterm delivery status.

Results

Adjusting for the other maternal CVD risk factors of interest, all categories of hypertension led to increased odds of preterm birth, with the strong

SUBMITTER: Rohlfing AB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7282308 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature