Pregnancy complications contribute to cardiovascular risk for overweight women, study finds

Complications during pregnancy (or adverse pregnancy outcomes), like gestational diabetes and newly developed high blood pressure, act as nature’s stress test and may uncover an individual’s risk for heart disease later in life, according to new research published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology titled “Pre-Pregnancy Adiposity, Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes, and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Midlife.”

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