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- Title
Excessive Gestational Weight Gain and Long-Term Maternal Cardiovascular Risk Profile: The Study of Women's Health Across the Nation.
- Authors
Hutchins, Franya; El Khoudary, Samar R.; Catov, Janet; Krafty, Robert; Colvin, Alicia; Barinas-Mitchell, Emma; Brooks, Maria M.
- Abstract
Background: Excessive gestational weight gain (GWG) is consistently linked with maternal risk of obesity. However, the literature on its long-term cardiovascular risk is minimal and conflicting. We evaluated whether excessive GWG is associated with a high-risk cardiovascular profile among parous women in midlife. Materials and Methods: Participants were women in the multiethnic cohort Study of Women's Health Across the Nation with a history of live birth(s). Excessive GWG was defined according to Institute of Medicine guidelines and collected by self-recall. Outcomes were the atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) risk score and C-reactive protein (CRP), measured at the study baseline when mean age was 47 years, and at 10 follow-up visits (1996–2017). We estimated the association of excessive GWG with outcomes through linear mixed model regression. Results: The analytic sample included 1318 women with 3049 singleton births. Over 40% (536) reported one or more pregnancies with excessive GWG. Longitudinal models estimated that at a mean age of 67, women with a history of excessive GWG had a 9.8% (9.2, 10.5) 10-year ASCVD risk, compared to 9.5% (8.9, 10.1) for those without, and mean CRP of 2.20 mg/L (1.89, 2.57) versus 1.85 mg/L (1.61, 2.14), respectively, adjusted for participant characteristics. Conclusions: In this multiethnic cohort of parous women, a history of excessive GWG was associated with a small, but statistically significant difference in ASCVD risk, and a moderate, statistically significant difference in CRP across midlife. More research is necessary to understand the mechanistic pathway between excessive GWG and long-term maternal cardiovascular health.
- Subjects
MICHIGAN; CALIFORNIA; PENNSYLVANIA; NEW Jersey; ILLINOIS; MASSACHUSETTS; UNITED States; WEIGHT gain in pregnancy; CARDIOVASCULAR diseases risk factors; C-reactive protein; RESEARCH; MOTHERS; AGE distribution; REGRESSION analysis; RISK assessment; PARITY (Obstetrics); CORONARY artery disease; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; LONGITUDINAL method; DISEASE risk factors; ADULTS; MIDDLE age
- Publication
Journal of Women's Health (15409996), 2022, Vol 31, Issue 6, p808
- ISSN
1540-9996
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1089/jwh.2021.0449