Medscape April 17, 2024
Health complications experienced during pregnancy may increase the risk for early death for patients, even decades after giving birth, according to a new study.
The findings, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, underscore the importance of integrating pregnancy history into routine primary care assessments, according to Casey Crump, MD, professor of epidemiology at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and a coauthor of the report.
“Pregnancy provides a key opportunity to identify high-risk women and start interventions earlier in life, before other health problems develop,” Crump said.
Crump and his colleagues used a cohort of 2 million women in Sweden who gave birth between 1973 and 2015 and analyzed data from pregnancy to...
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