Recent study reveals that women who encountered some complications while they were pregnant are more likely to die from a heart disease in the future compared to those women who didn't have complications.
According to CBS, this research was just released today in the American Heart Association's Journal Circulation. Such finding also suggests that this case is more likely to occur to women who experienced more than one complication during their pregnancy.
In America, heart disease is one of the most known killers for both men and women. As per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were 610,000 people in the U.S. who die annually because of heart disease. Back in 2013, The American Heart Association said that 399,503 of these are women.
According to the statistics made by scientists to support this research, there were more than 15,000 pregnant women in Oakland, Ca. who volunteered in the Public Health Institute's Child Health and Development Studies (CHDS) from 1959 to 1967. And as per their report in 2011, 368 women from that number died of heart disease.
The research showed facts and figures that related pregnancy complications to these women's deaths, which includes pre-eclampsia, small-for-gestational-age delivery and pre-term delivery. Combinations of complications were also found to have contributed to the factors involving women and their cause of death with heart disease.
Women who have a history of high blood pressure are five times more at risk along with women giving birth to a low-weight baby.
Medical Health News Today reported it to make all pregnant women be more aware of their health while they are carrying their baby. It is definitely a wake up call for those who are not taking care of their health during this time of their life.
