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LOS ANGELES -- Women who have had one or two miscarriages before delivery of a live baby are 50% more likely to develop ischemic heart disease later in life than are their counterparts who haven't miscarried, a recent study suggested.
Women who experienced at least three miscarriages have more than double the risk. These increases were found after adjusting for height, socioeconomic deprivation, essential hypertension, and maternal age and complications at the time of the first live birth, Dr. Gordon C.S. Smith said at the annual meeting of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation.
He and his associates at Cambridge (England) University compared hospital discharge data for all women delivered of singletons for the first time between 1981 and 1985 in Scotland with a national database of hospital admissions and deaths for the period between 1981 and 1999.
The results support findings from a previous study by ...