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- Middle-aged women with a history of hypertension during pregnancy were at increased risks of coronary heart and cerebrovascular disease incidence and mortality. - The risk of stoke is also increased, with slightly higher risk for ischemic than for hemorrhagic stroke.
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Controlling hypertension is likely to be beneficial to middle-aged women, including those with hypertension during pregnancy. But efforts to prevent women with hypertensive pregnancies from developing hypertension by middle age may be just as important in reducing their risk of developing vascular disease in the long-term.
Dr Dexter Canoy
University of Oxford
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This page is a summary of: Hypertension in pregnancy and risk of coronary heart disease and stroke: a prospective study in a large UK cohort, International Journal of Cardiology, August 2016, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2016.07.170.
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