Journal article
Maternal cardiovascular disease risk factors as predictors of preterm birth in California: a case-control study
BMJ open, Vol.10(6), pp.e034145-e034145
06/03/2020
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-034145
PMCID: PMC7282308
PMID: 32499261
Abstract
To determine whether maternal cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors predict preterm birth.
Case control.
California hospitals.
868 mothers with linked demographic information and biospecimens who delivered singleton births from July 2009 to December 2010.
Logistic regression analysis was employed to calculate odds ratios for the associations between maternal CVD risk factors before and during pregnancy (including diabetes, hypertensive disorders and cholesterol levels) and preterm birth outcomes.
Preterm delivery status.
Adjusting for the other maternal CVD risk factors of interest, all categories of hypertension led to increased odds of preterm birth, with the strongest magnitude observed in the pre-eclampsia group (adjusted OR (aOR), 13.49; 95% CI 6.01 to 30.27 for preterm birth; aOR, 10.62; 95% CI 4.58 to 24.60 for late preterm birth; aOR, 17.98; 95% CI 7.55 to 42.82 for early preterm birth) and chronic hypertension alone for early preterm birth (aOR, 4.58; 95% CI 1.40 to 15.05). Diabetes (types 1 and 2 and gestational) was also associated with threefold increased risk for preterm birth (aOR, 3.06; 95% CI 1.12 to 8.41). A significant and linear dose response was found between total and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol and aORs for late and early preterm birth, with increasing cholesterol values associated with increased risk (likelihood χ
differences of 8.422 and 8.019 for total cholesterol for late and early, and 9.169 and 10.896 for LDL for late and early, respectively). Receiver operating characteristic curves using these risk factors to predict late and early preterm birth produced C statistics of 0.601 and 0.686.
Traditional CVD risk factors are significantly associated with an increased risk of preterm birth; these findings reinforce the clinical importance of integrating obstetric and cardiovascular risk assessment across the healthcare continuum in women.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Maternal cardiovascular disease risk factors as predictors of preterm birth in California: a case-control study
- Creators
- Anne B Rohlfing - Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USAGregory Nah - Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USAKelli K Ryckman - Epidemiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USABrittney D Snyder - Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USADeborah Kasarek - Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USARandi A Paynter - Preterm Birth Initiative, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USASky K Feuer - Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USALaura Jelliffe-Pawlowski - Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USANisha I Parikh - Cardiology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA nisha.parikh@ucsf.edu
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- BMJ open, Vol.10(6), pp.e034145-e034145
- DOI
- 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-034145
- PMID
- 32499261
- PMCID
- PMC7282308
- ISSN
- 2044-6055
- eISSN
- 2044-6055
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/03/2020
- Academic Unit
- Stead Family Department of Pediatrics; Epidemiology
- Record Identifier
- 9984214783702771
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