Publications by authors named "R Skjaerven"
Objective: The objective of this study is to assess associations between pregnancy complications and pregnancy-associated maternal mortality (PAM) within 1 year after childbirth.
Design: Population-based cohort study.
Setting: Norway, 1967-2020.
Harnessing women's full reproductive history in assessing cardiovascular risk.
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol
March 2024
Article Synopsis
- A study assessed the link between a woman's pregnancy history by age 40 and her risk of dying from atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD), using data from over 854,000 women in Norway.
- Results showed that women with complicated pregnancies had significantly higher risks of ASCVD mortality, with those having four complicated pregnancies facing a 23-fold increased risk.
- The findings suggest that pregnancy history is an important factor in predicting cardiovascular disease risk, prompting the need for further research on its contributions alongside established risk factors.
Background: Prior studies on maternal cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) have focused only on a woman's first birth and have not accounted for successive affected pregnancies.
Objectives: The objective of this study is to identify mothers' risk of CVD mortality considering lifetime reproductive history.
Methods: We used data from the Medical Birth Registry of Norway, the Norwegian Cause of Death Registry, and the Norwegian National Population Register to identify all mothers who gave birth from 1967 to 2020.
Background: Previous studies have found that women who undergo cesarean delivery have fewer pregnancies. Cesarean delivery is also more common among women with lower fecundability. The potential role of cesarean delivery in reduced fecundability is not known.
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