Women who experience hypertensive disorders of pregnancy have significantly increased risk of developing serious heart disease or even dying within five years of giving birth.

Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy affect about 5-10% of pregnancies worldwide. They include four main types: chronic hypertension, gestational hypertension, preeclampsia, and eclampsia.

The study was presented at the American Heart Association conference in New Orleans and included 218,141 live births, from 157,606 mothers that occurred from 2017-2024 in 22 Intermountain Health hospitals across the Utah, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, and Nevada regions of the U.S.

In the study, 31,077 cases of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy were reported. Most were diagnosed on first pregnancy. The average age of the study po

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