Growing rates of obesity are contributing to more heart disease risks during and after pregnancy, experts warn.
MORE: US maternal mortality increased 33% during pandemic, hitting Black and Hispanic women especially hard
Screening and treating people for cardiac complications during pregnancy — whether they have obesity or not — can help reduce long-term risks, Bello says. In addition, anyone who has a complication during pregnancy should be monitored for heart disease, she says. With heart disease being the leading cause of death in women year after year, experts agree that lifestyle intervention during their entire life course needs to be the main driver to help reduce these unfavorable statistics.
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