Risk of cardiovascular disease after pre-eclampsia and the effect of lifestyle interventions: a literature-based study.
CONCLUSIONS: Cardiovascular risk factors do not fully explain the risk of cardiovascular disease after pre-eclampsia. The gap between estimated and observed odds ratios may be explained by an additive risk of cardiovascular disease by pre-eclampsia. Furthermore, lifestyle interventions after pre-eclampsia seem to be effective in decreasing cardiovascular risk. Future research is needed to overcome the numerous assumptions we had to make in our calculations.
PMID: 23530583 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: BJOG : An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology - Category: OBGYN Authors: Berks D, Hoedjes M, Raat H, Duvekot J, Steegers E, Habbema J Tags: BJOG Source Type: research
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