{"id":6668,"date":"2014-10-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.christianacare.org\/2014\/10\/arterial-stiffness-and-wave-reflection-1-year-after-a-pregnancy-complicated-by-hypertension\/"},"modified":"2014-10-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T04:00:00","slug":"arterial-stiffness-and-wave-reflection-1-year-after-a-pregnancy-complicated-by-hypertension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.christianacare.org\/publications\/2014\/10\/01\/arterial-stiffness-and-wave-reflection-1-year-after-a-pregnancy-complicated-by-hypertension\/","title":{"rendered":"Arterial stiffness and wave reflection 1\u00a0year after a pregnancy complicated by hypertension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ehrenthal DB, Goldstein ND, Wu P, Rogers S, Townsend RR, Edwards DG<\/p>\n<p>J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich) 2014 Oct;16(10):695-9<\/p>\n<p>PMID: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/25116457\" target=\"_blank\">25116457<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Abstract<\/h2>\n<p><p>Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) are associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) later in life. The authors investigated the association of HDP with blood pressure (BP) and arterial stiffness 1-year postpartum. Seventy-four participants, 33 with an HDP and 41 with uncomplicated pregnancies, were examined using applanation tonometry to measure BP, carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (cfPWV), and augmentation index (AIx). On average, women with HDP had a 9 mm higher systolic BP (P&lt;.01), 0.8 m\/s faster cfPWV (P=.09), and 5.4% greater AIx (P=.09) at the 1-year examination. After adjustment for covariates, there was no significant difference in cfPWV between groups, while a 7.3% greater AIx (P&lt;.05) remained. These findings suggest that reduced endothelial function may be detected 1 year after HDP. Large prospective studies are needed to further understand the contribution of arterial stiffness and endothelial dysfunction in the evolution of CVD after these complicated pregnancies.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ehrenthal DB, Goldstein ND, Wu P, Rogers S, Townsend RR, Edwards DG J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich) 2014 Oct;16(10):695-9 PMID: 25116457 Abstract Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) are associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) later in life. The authors investigated the association of HDP with blood pressure (BP) and arterial stiffness 1-year postpartum. Seventy-four participants, 33 with<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/research.christianacare.org\/publications\/2014\/10\/01\/arterial-stiffness-and-wave-reflection-1-year-after-a-pregnancy-complicated-by-hypertension\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Arterial stiffness and wave reflection 1\u00a0year after a pregnancy complicated by hypertension<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pubs-pres"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.christianacare.org\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.christianacare.org\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.christianacare.org\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.christianacare.org\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.christianacare.org\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/research.christianacare.org\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.christianacare.org\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.christianacare.org\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.christianacare.org\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}