Hypertensive Disorder

Women who reported snoring or having poor diet quality during their first trimester were more likely to develop a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy, increasing their risk for cardiovascular events after delivery, researchers reported.

In a population-based cohort study, prenatal exposure to antiseizure medications was associated with a risk for autism spectrum disorder in children.

Maternal hypertensive disorders of pregnancy are associated with increased risk for overall and type-specific strabismus, including exophoria and intermittent exotropia, in offspring at age 3 years, researchers reported.

Women diagnosed with a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy require careful management and follow-up after delivery, yet for many of these patients, the only provider they may see is their OB/GYN for a postpartum visit.

Women diagnosed with preeclampsia were 2.6 times more likely to develop early-onset dementia during 9 years of follow-up compared with women who did not have a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy, according to registry data.

Women with gestational diabetes or hypertension referred from obstetrics to a primary care provider after delivery were six times more likely to attend a visit with a PCP in the first year postpartum, data show.

Children born to mothers with a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy are not more likely to have childhood asthma than those born to mothers without the disorder, according to a research letter.

Risk for a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy after a frozen embryo transfer was substantially higher than after natural conception, even when controlling for constant parental characteristics within sibships, researchers reported.

Data that indicated better outcomes among some patients with cardiac arrest who had epinephrine administered fewer than 5 minutes after their first defibrillation was the top story in cardiology last week.

Among mothers, those who had hypertensive disorders of pregnancy had increased risk for premature mortality, according to research published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.