Pregnancy-associated mortality due to cardiovascular disease : Impact of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy

© 2024 The Authors. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd..

BACKGROUND: Reported rates of maternal mortality in the United States have been staggeringly high and increasing, and cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a chief contributor to such deaths. However, the impact of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) on the short-term risk of cardiovascular death is not well understood.

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the association between HDP (chronic hypertension, gestational hypertension, preeclampsia, eclampsia, and superimposed preeclampsia) and pregnancy-associated mortality rates (PMR) from all causes, CVD-related causes both at delivery and within 1 year following delivery.

METHODS: We used the Nationwide Readmissions Database (2010-2018) to examine PMRs for females 15-54 years old. International Classification of Disease 9 and 10 diagnosis codes were used to identify pregnancy-associated deaths due to HDP and CVD. Discrete-time Cox proportional hazards regression models were used to calculate adjusted hazard ratios (HR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for mortality at delivery (0 days) and at <30, <60, <90, <180, and <365 days after delivery in relation to HDP.

RESULTS: Of 33,417,736 hospital deliveries, the rate of HDP was 11.0% (n = 3,688,967), and the PMR from CVD was 6.4 per 100,000 delivery hospitalisations (n = 2141). Compared with normotensive patients, HRs for CVD-related PMRs increased with HDP severity, reaching over 58-fold for eclampsia patients. HRs were higher for stroke-related (1.2 to 170.9) than heart disease (HD)-related (0.99 to 39.8) mortality across all HDPs. Except for gestational hypertension, the increased risks of CVD mortality were evident at delivery and persisted 1 year postpartum for all HDPs.

CONCLUSIONS: HDPs are strong risk factors for pregnancy-associated mortality due to CVD at delivery and within 1 year postpartum; the risks are stronger for stroke than HD-related PMR. While absolute PMRs are low, this study supports the importance of extending postpartum care beyond the traditional 42-day postpartum visit for people whose pregnancies are complicated by hypertension.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:38

Enthalten in:

Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology - 38(2024), 3 vom: 20. März, Seite 204-215

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Lee, Rachel [VerfasserIn]
Brandt, Justin S [VerfasserIn]
Joseph, K S [VerfasserIn]
Ananth, Cande V [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Cardiovascular disease
Heart disease
Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy
Journal Article
Pregnancy‐associated mortality
Stroke

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 28.03.2024

Date Revised 02.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/ppe.13055

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM368659909