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  • Pregnancy Complications Could Mean Lifelong Heart Risks for Women

    Pregnancy Complications Could Mean Lifelong Heart Risks for Women

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    By Cara Murez 

    HealthDay Reporter

    THURSDAY, Feb. 2, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Major pregnancy complications, such as preeclampsia and preterm birth, should be recognized as lifelong risk factors for women’s heart disease, new research suggests.

    Women who experience any of the five major pregnancy complications have an increased risk of ischemic heart disease up to 46 years after delivery, says the study published Feb. 1 in the BMJ.

    The five complications are: preterm delivery (less than 37 weeks gestation), small baby for gestational age at birth, preeclampsia (a blood pressure disorder), other blood pressure disorders of pregnancy, and gestational diabetes.

    “Women with adverse pregnancy outcomes should be considered for early preventive evaluation and long-term risk reduction to help prevent the development of ischemic heart disease,” the study authors said in a journal news release. Dr. Casey Crump, from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, led the research team.

    Nearly one-third of women experience an adverse pregnancy outcome, the authors said in background notes. Heart disease is the leading cause of death among women worldwide.

    For the study, U.S. and Swedish researchers identified more than 2.1 million women in Sweden with no history of heart disease. Each had given birth to a single live infant between 1973 and 2015 at an average age of 27.
     

    Using medical records, the researchers tracked cases of heart disease from delivery date through 2018. This was an average follow-up time of 25 years.

    They considered the mothers’ age, number of children, education, income, body mass index, smoking and history of high blood pressure, diabetes or high cholesterol.
     

    Heart disease was diagnosed in more than 83,000 — or almost 4% — of women at an average age of 58.

    The researchers found that in the 10 years after delivery, relative rates of heart disease rose 1.7-fold in those with a history of preterm delivery and 1.5-fold in women with preeclampsia. Moreover, they rose twofold in women with other high blood pressure disorders of pregnancy. In addition, risk of heart disease rose 1.3-fold in those with gestational diabetes and 1.1-fold in those who delivered a small-for-gestational-age infant.

    Women who had experienced several adverse pregnancy outcomes showed further increases in risk.

    These risks remained significantly elevated 30 to 46 years after delivery. They were only partially explained by shared genetic or environmental factors within families, the researchers noted.
     

    The study can’t prove a direct cause and effect relationship, however.

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    The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has more on women and heart disease.

     

    SOURCE: BMJ, news release, Feb. 1, 2023

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  • ‘Definitely pregnant’: New 23-year-old mom nearly dies from unexpected pregnancy

    ‘Definitely pregnant’: New 23-year-old mom nearly dies from unexpected pregnancy

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    An Omaha couple finds out they’re pregnant and then have the baby in just 48 hours. Doctors had to perform an emergency c-section to save mom and child.Peyton Stover, 23, thought she was just feeling the effects of her new job. “I’m a first-year teacher. I just thought it was normal to be tired all the time,” Stover said. Then her legs started to swell and after her mom pushed her to go to the doctor, Stover heard the news she never expected. “They ran the test again she said, ‘It’s definitely positive. We’re going to do an ultrasound,’” Stover said. “She looked right at the screen and said, ‘You’re definitely pregnant.’”But Stover was not OK. Her family and boyfriend, Travis Koesters, rushed to her side. “My kidneys weren’t performing up to what they should. My liver wasn’t working properly,” Stover said. Her situation grew dire and her doctors had to move fast”They said she needs to be admitted and then she had the baby that night,” Koesters said. “They’re like you’re having a baby in 15 minutes,” Stover said. Stover had an emergency cesarean surgery and Kash was born 10 weeks early at just over four pounds.Stover knows now she had a life-threatening case of preeclampsia which is mainly high blood pressure during pregnancy.”I had severely high blood pressure which is very scary,” Stover said. “If I wouldn’t have came in when I did I probably wouldn’t have made it through the weekend.”Stover stayed at Methodist Women’s Hospital for a week just a couple of floors up from Kash. “We were coming down, looking at him, making sure he was good and then going back up,” Koesters said. Both were hoping for kids in the future but are now settling into being new parents practically overnight. “Now that I’ve actually held him, fed him and things like that it’s real. He’s actually mine,” Koesters said. Stover is now listening to her body. “I don’t really like going to the doctor. I try to let things resolve on its own and now I’ve learned you can’t necessarily do that,” Stover said. Kash’s parents said he’s gaining weight and doing well but there’s no word yet when they’ll be able to bring him home.Another surprise both Kash and his mom share the same birthday!

    OMAHA, Neb. —

    An Omaha couple finds out they’re pregnant and then have the baby in just 48 hours. Doctors had to perform an emergency c-section to save mom and child.

    Peyton Stover, 23, thought she was just feeling the effects of her new job.

    “I’m a first-year teacher. I just thought it was normal to be tired all the time,” Stover said.

    Then her legs started to swell and after her mom pushed her to go to the doctor, Stover heard the news she never expected.

    “They ran the test again she said, ‘It’s definitely positive. We’re going to do an ultrasound,’” Stover said. “She looked right at the screen and said, ‘You’re definitely pregnant.’”

    But Stover was not OK. Her family and boyfriend, Travis Koesters, rushed to her side.

    “My kidneys weren’t performing up to what they should. My liver wasn’t working properly,” Stover said.

    Her situation grew dire and her doctors had to move fast

    “They said she needs to be admitted and then she had the baby that night,” Koesters said.

    “They’re like you’re having a baby in 15 minutes,” Stover said.

    Stover had an emergency cesarean surgery and Kash was born 10 weeks early at just over four pounds.

    Stover knows now she had a life-threatening case of preeclampsia which is mainly high blood pressure during pregnancy.

    “I had severely high blood pressure which is very scary,” Stover said. “If I wouldn’t have came in when I did I probably wouldn’t have made it through the weekend.”

    Stover stayed at Methodist Women’s Hospital for a week just a couple of floors up from Kash.

    “We were coming down, looking at him, making sure he was good and then going back up,” Koesters said.

    Both were hoping for kids in the future but are now settling into being new parents practically overnight.

    “Now that I’ve actually held him, fed him and things like that it’s real. He’s actually mine,” Koesters said.

    Stover is now listening to her body.

    “I don’t really like going to the doctor. I try to let things resolve on its own and now I’ve learned you can’t necessarily do that,” Stover said.

    Kash’s parents said he’s gaining weight and doing well but there’s no word yet when they’ll be able to bring him home.

    Another surprise both Kash and his mom share the same birthday!

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