Pregnancy Complication

DANA POINT, Calif. — Black and indigenous women in the U.S. experience “unacceptably poor” maternal health outcomes, including disproportionately high rates of mortality and morbidity with CVD as the leading cause, according to a speaker.

Women of childbearing age with hidradenitis suppurativa are often prescribed teratogenic medications, and the majority do not receive physician-led counsel on how these medications could impact childbearing, according to published data.

Pregnant patients with Takayasu arteritis demonstrate an increased risk for adverse pregnancy outcomes, including hypertension and miscarriage, compared with the general population, according to a meta-analysis published in Nature.

Optimizing a person’s CV health before they become pregnant, beginning as early as adolescence, can reduce risk for adverse outcomes during pregnancy and improve CV health for their offspring, researchers reported.

Because interstitial lung disease is often associated with an older patient population, there is limited knowledge on how ILD impacts young women who are pregnant, according to a review published in CHEST.

Patients who survive a pregnancy-associated stroke are at lower risk for death and readmission compared with nonpregnant patients with stroke at 1 year; however, their risks were similar with longer follow-up, researchers reported.

About four in five pregnancy-related deaths that occurred in the United States from 2017 to 2019 were preventable, according to the CDC.

Obesity is a chronic, complex disease that can lead to a spectrum of additional serious health concerns.

Black and Hispanic patients with peripartum cardiomyopathy exhibited greater prevalence of cardiogenic shock and experienced greater in-hospital mortality vs. white patients, researchers reported.

Having two midwives present during the active second stage of labor may reduce the risk of severe perineal trauma in women giving birth vaginally for the first time, according to a study published in The Lancet.