Alex Gardner for Penn Medicine News: “‘Pregnancy can often be a stress test for future health,’ said lead author Lisa Levine, MD, MSCE, the Michael T. Mennuti, MD, Associate Professor in Reproductive Health, chief of Maternal Fetal Medicine, and co-director of the Pregnancy and Heart Disease Program at Penn Medicine. ‘Many complications of pregnancy, such as HDP and preterm birth, are associated with increased risks later in life. We knew from epidemiologic data that patients who have had high blood pressure in pregnancy (or HDP) are at higher risk of heart disease later in life, but it had not been evaluated to this extent at the 10-year mark. We looked at this question in a group of people, largely Black women, who are at a higher risk of both HDP and heart disease.'”
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