Research Highlights:
An analysis of health records for almost 110,000 women in the UK found that women with poor cardiovascular health after pregnancy or who experienced adverse pregnancy outcomes, including high blood pressure, gestational diabetes and/or pre-term birth, had a significantly higher long-term risk of developing cardiovascular disease.
Among women with adverse pregnancy outcomes, those who maintained better cardiovascular health after pregnancy had cardiovascular disease risk similar to women who had no history of pregnancy complications.
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From our Guest Blogger Series
I’m an auntie to several amazing nieces (ie, nieces and nephews) and I’m a researcher for the News Literacy Project, a nonpartisan educational nonprofit. Although I have been thinking for years about how we teach news literacy in the classroom, my role as an aunt has given me a fresh perspective on how we teach news literacy at home.
Growing up, my parents would snap open big print newspapers in the morning, passing finished sections to each other while sipping coffee. Our car rides, when not scored by my dad’s chaotically eclectic music taste, often…