Live birth/parity number and the risk of incident hypertension among parous women during over 13 years of follow-up.

ABSTRACT: The effect of live birth/parity number on incident hypertension was investigated among Iranian parous women aged 30-70 years. The study population included 2188 normotensive women who were enrolled in 1999-2001. They were followed for incident hypertension (based on JNC 7 report) by 3-year intervals up to April 2018. Multivariable Cox proportional hazard models, adjusted for a wide set of potential hypertension risk factors, reproductive factors, and pregnancy complications, were applied to estimate hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) of the number of parity/live birth(s) for incident hypertension. Additionally, as a sensitivity analysis, age-scale Cox regression was also done. During a median follow-up of 13.5 years, 935 incident hypertension have occurred. Compared to

SUBMITTER: Moazzeni SS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8630610 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature