Pregnancy triggers many changes to the body, but there's one that may surprise many women. A hidden change is that the heart has to pump, on average, nearly 50% more blood by the end of pregnancy than ...

(CNN) — Five major pregnancy complications are strong lifelong risk factors for ischemic heart disease, a new study finds, with the greatest risk coming in the decade after delivery. Ischemic heart ...

HealthDay News — Recommendations have been developed for managing heart failure in pregnancy and published online Sept. 22 in a Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Consult Series in Pregnancy.

A new study from researchers at Intermountain Health reveals that hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) significantly ...

Cardiac problems are on the rise in pregnant women. During pregnancy, a woman’s heart rate is estimated to increase by at least 25 per cent. This can place women at a higher risk of a range of heart ...

Obesity before or during pregnancy is the root cause of future cardiovascular disease, not simply the development of preeclampsia or gestational diabetes, Northwestern Medicine researchers say.

Why connect these two epidemics? In addition to being a leading cause of pregnancy-related illness and death, there is now compelling evidence that preeclampsia and other complications of pregnancy ...

If a woman has heart health factors, such as obesity and smoking while pregnant, her child might end up a decade later with poor heart health, according to a new study from Northwestern Medicine and ...