Association between hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and cardiovascular diseases within 24 months after delivery

Cardiovascular mortality in the context of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy: Towards an optimisation of case identification strategies

“…Finally, due to the process for data collection in the NRD, the ability to observe events up to 1 year postpartum was not possible for all women delivering after January, resulting in missed events. This raises concerns regarding the utility of data sources that capture events based on calendar year, since the postpartum period is known to be a high‐risk period for mortality for individuals with HDP and cardiovascular complications 9 . However, the increased risk in the earlier periods of follow‐up (<60 days postpartum) suggests that the extent of the attenuation of the observed associations may be less of a concern.…”