United States: According to a recent study, women who experience some complications during pregnancy may have chances of dying early for the decades to come. This a widespread concern among women that once in their lifetime, they have to go through this phase and to die early just because of the complications in pregnancy is a worrying concern.
“Women who experienced any of these five major adverse pregnancy outcomes had increased mortality risks that remained elevated more than 40 years later,” said a group of people works under Dr. Casey Crump of the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in Houston.
The team also published some findings on April 15 in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine. According to them, pregnancy is considered a ‘natural stress test’ that concludes valuable information for understanding one’s health risk in the coming future.
Additionally, the major causes of pregnancy complications among women nowadays are smoking, obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. These things raise overall health risks.
In a recent study, the team in Texas analysed data on over 2 million Swedish women who delivered only single babies between 1973 and 2015, and after this, they tracked the health of women through 2023.
The researchers discovered that women with a history of gestational diabetes—diabetes that develops during pregnancy—had a 52% higher risk of dying throughout the course of the trial.
According to the study, having an underweight infant at birth was associated with a 30% increase in risk, and having a preterm delivery was connected to a 41% greater chance of early death.
According to the researchers, preeclampsia, a hazardous blood pressure spike that occurs during pregnancy, is also linked with a 13% increased risk of dying young.
The risks “remained elevated even 30 to 46 years after delivery,” according to the findings of Crump’s research.
“These findings could be important to many women as 30% of women experience an adverse pregnancy outcome during their reproductive years,” the study authors said.
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Causes that appeared to raise the risk of early death:
The study finds that pregnancy complications can lead to cardiovascular death anywhere from 1.5 to 2.5-fold, compared to the women who don’t have such histories.
The women who delivered the babies prematurely and underweight babies can get diabetes or respiratory illness, and even the chances of getting cancer rose by up to 20 percent.
Women with two or three such complications have higher chances of early death, rising by 56% and 84%, respectively.