Women who develop high blood pressure during pregnancy may be more likely than those who don’t to have heart attacks or strokes decades later, a Norwegian study suggests.
Compared to women with normal blood pressure during every pregnancy, women who developed hypertensive disorders, or high blood pressure, during one or more pregnancies were 57% more likely to have a heart attack or stroke at some point between ages 40 and 70.
High blood pressure and a high BMI explained 77% of the excess risk of events like heart attacks and strokes among women who had hypertensive disorders during pregnancy, researchers report in JAMA Cardiology. Overall, 1,155 women who never had hypertensive disorders during pregnancy still had events like heart attacks or strokes during the study period.
Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy didn’t appear to influence the risk of heart problems after age 70, however. Still, the findings suggest that women with a history of hypertensive disorders during pregnancy can minimize their risk of future heart issues by keeping their weight and blood pressure within healthy ranges as they age, said Laura Benschop, a researcher at Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, who wasn’t involved in the study.
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