00:00Women with pregnancy complications face a higher risk of heart, kidney, and metabolic diseases later in life.
00:06A UK study published in BMJ Medicine tracked more than 1.4 million women over an average of four years.
00:13It found gestational diabetes raised the risk of type 2 diabetes seven-fold,
00:18and also increased hypertension and cardiovascular disease.
00:22High blood pressure in pregnancy more than tripled the chance of later hypertension,
00:26and doubled chronic kidney disease rates.
00:29Less-known links include postnatal depression, which raised risks of all four conditions by up to 56%.
00:35Miscarriage, stillbirth, placental abruption, and preterm birth also showed modest increases in risk.
00:42The study used a large UK primary care database but lacked data on diet, exercise, and ethnicity for some women.
00:50The authors say pregnancy complications act as markers of future health risk, not causes.
00:55They recommend using pregnancy history to improve heart and kidney disease risk assessments.
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