Cohort profile: the Olmsted County hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) cohort using the Rochester Epidemiology Project.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The Olmsted County hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) cohort is a population-based retrospective study designed to compare the incidence of HDP on a per-pregnancy and per-woman basis and to identify associations between HDP with ageing-related diseases, as well as accumulation of multimorbidity.

Participants

Using the Rochester Epidemiology Project (REP) medical records-linkage system, a cohort was collected consisting of women who gave birth in Olmsted County between 1976 and 1982. After exclusions, a per-pregnancy cohort of 7544 women with 9862 pregnancies between 1976 and 1982 was identified, and their delivery information was manually reviewed. A subset of these women comprised the per-woman cohort of 4322 pregnancies from 1839 women with delivery informat

SUBMITTER: Vaughan L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9045052 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature