Health Issues in Middle Age Can Be Linked to Pregnancy Years Earlier
From The New York Times:
For most of modern medicine, the health care system has treated pregnancy as a finite event — a nine-month blip in a woman’s medical history. Once a woman reached the end of pregnancy, the prevailing wisdom held that she more or less returned to her pre-pregnancy state.
But in recent years, a growing body of evidence has found that this is not always the case. Experts now believe that pregnancy can offer a window into a woman’s future health, and can provide valuable information about her long-term risk of heart disease, diabetes, stroke and other cardiovascular conditions.