Placental characteristics and risks of maternal mortality 50 years after delivery

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INTRODUCTION: Adverse pregnancy outcomes such as preterm delivery and preeclampsia are associated with a higher maternal risk for subsequent cardiovascular disease (CVD) and all-cause mortality. While such pregnancy conditions are related to abnormal placentation, little research has investigated whether pathologic placental measures could serve as a risk factor for future CVD mortality in mothers.

METHODS: Longitudinal study of 33,336 women from the Collaborative Perinatal Project (CPP; 1959-1966) linked to mortality information through December 2016. Pathologists took extensive morphological and histopathological measures. Apart from assessing associations with morphological features, we derived an overall composite score and specific inflammation-related, hemorrhage-related, and hypoxia-related pathologic placenta index scores. Cox regression estimated hazard ratios (HR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for mortality adjusting for covariates.

RESULTS: Thirty-nine percent of women died with mean (standard deviation, SD) time to death of 39 (12) years. Mean (SD) placental weight and birthweight were 436 g (98) and 3156 g (566), respectively. Placenta-to-birthweight ratio was associated with all-cause mortality (adjusted HR 1.03: 1.01, 1.05 per SD in ratio). In cause-specific analyses, it was significantly associated with respiratory (HR 1.06), dementia (HR: 1.10) and liver (HR 1.04) related deaths. CVD, cancer, diabetes and kidney related deaths also tended to increase, whereas infection related deaths did not (HR 0.94; 0.83, 1.06). Placental measures of thickness, diameters, and histopathological measures grouped by inflammatory, hemorrhagic, or hypoxic etiology were not associated with mortality.

DISCUSSION: Placental weight in relation to birthweight was associated with long-term maternal mortality but other histopathologic or morphologic features were not.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:117

Enthalten in:

Placenta - 117(2022) vom: 22. Jan., Seite 194-199

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Yeung, E H [VerfasserIn]
Saha, A [VerfasserIn]
Zhu, C [VerfasserIn]
Trinh, M H [VerfasserIn]
Hinkle, S N [VerfasserIn]
Pollack, A Z [VerfasserIn]
Grantz, K L [VerfasserIn]
Mills, J L [VerfasserIn]
Mumford, S L [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, C [VerfasserIn]
Robinson, S L [VerfasserIn]
Gillman, M W [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, J [VerfasserIn]
Mendola, P [VerfasserIn]
Sundaram, R [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Birthweight
Journal Article
Mortality
Placental diameter
Placental histopathology
Placental weight
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

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Date Completed 10.03.2022

Date Revised 02.01.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.placenta.2021.12.014

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NLM33465498X