Heart disease and conditions in pregnancy

Congenital heart disease risks in pregnancy “may be overestimated’

Women with congenital heart disease are more likely to have safer pregnancies, according to new research. Physicians may have been over-estimating the risks of complications for women with these disorders, which in turn may have been discouraging them from pregnancy, the researchers said. Congenital heart disease (CHD) is a group of abnormalities in the heart that develop before birth, such…

Putting pregnant women at the heart of its advice

It’s no secret that women and men are different, which is why medical advice must always take these differences into account. So when the American Heart Association published its latest set of guidelines in late 2013, it prepared a separate set of guidelines for women. And these cover every stage of their lives, including pregnancy. In pregnancy, the American Heart…