Premature Child Birth Hints Warning For Mothers Possible Heart Failure Later In Life: Study

Women giving birth to a child preterm have higher risks of heart diseases later in life. Data collected from 70,182 women show that women giving birth to preterm babies had 32 percent more risk heart attack or stroke in later life.

The new study reveals that the earlier a baby is born, the higher are the risks of heart diseases in the mother. It is to be noted that the risks of heart diseases were independent of the women's pre-pregnancy lifestyle and other heart risk factors like race, age at first birth, education, hypertension before or during pregnancy, diabetes, physical activity, smoking and other pre-pregnancy health and behavioral characteristics, reports NY Times.

Women get an early warning signal from a pre mature baby birth, says Lauren J. Tanz, the lead author and a doctoral candidate at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He further added that the such mothers may pay special attention to their heart health and focus on healthy diet and lifestyle specifically designed for their heart health.

The study results also showed that the risks were higher for mothers who had more than baby delivered preterm. The increased risks included preterm babies that were not complicated by high blood pressure disorders of pregnancy, such as preeclampsia, according to CBS News.

The analysis of preterm delivery tells the experts that this is just a warning for the clinical cardiovascular risk that is present before or at the time of the pregnancy, says Tanz, who is also a doctoral student at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.  It is obvious that a preterm delivery rings the bell early for a coming danger!

Experts say that more researches are needed to figure out how a preterm delivery is linked to heart disease or stroke. This will help in finding out what can be done to lower the risks.