Cardiovascular risk factors before and during pregnancy: Does pregnancy unmask or initiate risk?

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To understand if pregnancy unmasks previously silent cardiovascular (CV) adverse factors, or initiates lasting injury.

Methods

Pre-pregnancy and during pregnancy CV risk factors (blood pressure, fasting lipids, and glucose) from 296 women belonging to studies in the International Childhood Cardiovascular Cohort (i3C) Consortium, a group of studies assessing the relationship between child and adolescent CV risk factors and adult outcomes, were used. Correlation coefficients between the pre- and during pregnancy measures were calculated, and the mean difference between the measures was modeled with adjustment for age, body mass index, race, smoking, and study.

Results

Measures were strongly correlated at pre- and during-pregnancy visits (p < 0.01), with r of

SUBMITTER: Harville EW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8924930 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature