Pregnancy Hypertensive Disorders

DENVER — Black women with a history of recurrent pregnancy loss had a higher likelihood of developing hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, delivering offspring earlier and delivering offspring with lower birth weights, researchers reported.

Drinking more than 12 g of alcohol every day increased the risk for hypertension in a linear fashion, according to a meta-analysis of 23 studies with 600,000 participants.

Previously healthy women who delivered via cesarian had increased short-term risk for CVD complications after delivery, according to data presented at The Pregnancy Meeting.

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

Women with preeclampsia reported that they were inadequately educated on the symptoms and long-term risks associated with the condition and said their clinicians largely did not address its mental health impacts.

An electronic reminder sent to a provider ahead of a postpartum visit increased discussions about transition of care and CVD risk between the provider and patients who had a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy, researchers reported.

According to a new scientific statement published in Hypertension, high BP should be treated during pregnancy, and treatment should be individualized to each patient.

Adverse pregnancy outcomes, particularly hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and low birth weight, were independently linked to atherosclerotic CVD in postmenopausal women, researchers found.

Women with a history of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, such as gestational hypertension and preeclampsia, are also likely to have bothersome menopause symptoms, according to study data published in Menopause.

CVD is the leading cause of maternal deaths in the U.S., contributing to a more than twofold increase in pregnancy-related mortality from 1987 to 2015, and better CV management in pregnant women is needed, according to a presenter.