Researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Harvard Medical School’s second-largest teaching hospital) found that stress experienced during pregnancy, especially during fertility treatment, can negatively impact expectant mothers’ cardiovascular health. results published In Journal of the Endocrine Society (JES).
In the study, data from 400 women who received infertility treatment at the Massachusetts General Hospital Fertility Center in the USA were used. The researchers collected information about the women’s health and asked them to self-assess their stress levels. Mental and physical health data were updated after participants successfully became pregnant.
It turns out that high levels of pre-pregnancy stress are associated with worsening cardiovascular health in women during pregnancy. Specifically, pregnant women who reported high emotional stress were more likely to have high blood sugar levels.
Scientists noted that with hyperglycemia, blood vessels are damaged. They become less flexible, their permeability decreases, which leads to the inability of nutritious tissues and organs (especially the heart muscle) to fully function. This pathology can cause arteriosclerosis, hypertension and subsequent heart attack or stroke.
Previously Novosibirsk scientists defined Genetic predisposition factors to the development of uterine myomas.