Parental genetically predicted liability for coronary heart disease and risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes
Álvaro Hernáez,
Karoline H. Skåra,
Christian M. Page
et al.
Abstract:Background. Adverse pregnancy outcomes (APO) may unmask a woman's underlying risk for coronary heart disease (CHD). To test this, we estimated associations between genetically predicted liability for CHD and risk of APOs in mothers and their male partners. We hypothesized that associations would be found for women, but not their partners (negative controls). Methods. We studied up to 83,969 women (and up to 55,568 male partners) participating in the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study or the Tronde… Show more
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