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Placental syndromes and long-term risk of hypertension

Estimates are adjusted for age at measurement, HUNT survey, highest obtained education level, age at first birth, and ever daily smoking. Covariates are fixed at their means with gaps in the graphs corresponding to the woman’s first pregnancy, birth at age 23, and a three months postpartum period.

Dr. Janet Catov's team reviewed the relationship between blood pressure and maternal health in pregnancy. They concluded that there is a pressing need for studies with a range of detailed measures of cardiac and vascular structure and function taken before, during, and after pregnancy. This will help inform effective precision medicine prevention and treatment of both placental syndromes and chronic hypertension in women.

Read more about Dr. Catov's findings here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36702879/

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Prepregnancy obesity and risk of placental inflammation at term: a selection bias analysis

Prepregnancy obesity and risk of placental inflammation at term: a selection bias analysis

Dr. Janet Catov and her team examined the association between prepregnancy obesity (risk factor for inflammation) and histologic placental inflammation (correlated with impaired infant neurodevelopment) and how selection bias may influence the association.

Their findings point to obesity contributing to placental inflammation: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37302673/

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