Cardio-oncology & otherCross-sectional study
Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes and Prevalent Cardiovascular Disease Among an Urban Cohort in Haiti
- cross-sectional association
- Haiti CVD Cohort
- Poisson regression models, adjusted for traditional risk factors
Authors' conclusion
CVD was more common in women with a history of APO or grand multiparity, driven primarily by high heart failure prevalence in this relatively young sample of women living in urban Haiti.
Study context
- Population
- Female participants of the Haiti CVD Cohort who completed a reproductive health questionnaire, urban Haitiwomen, median age 44 years (IQR: 31–55 years)
- Participants
- 1,146 participants
- Exposure
- the relationship between APO and prevalent CVD
- APOn = 623
- grand multiparityn = 230
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Heart failure
PR
- age-adjusted
- 1.54 (95% CI 1.11–2.12)
- fully adjusted
- 1.44 (95% CI 1.04–1.99)
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
| Outcome | PR (95% CI) |
|---|---|
| Prevalent stroke · not significant | 1.05 (0.52–2.11) |
| CVD and heart failure, grand multiparity — grand multiparity · CVD, fully adjusted | 1.54 (1.14–2.07) |
| CVD and heart failure, grand multiparity — grand multiparity · heart failure, fully adjusted | 1.62 (1.17–2.24) |
Participant characteristics
- income <1 USD/day
- 68.0%
- unemployment
- 67.0%
- only primary education or less
- 46.0%
- at least 1 APO
- 61.7% (n = 623)
- grand multiparity
- 20% [n = 230]
Original publication
Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes and Prevalent Cardiovascular Disease Among an Urban Cohort in Haiti. JACC Adv. Published 13 May 2026. doi:10.1016/j.jacadv.2026.102783
Summarised from the published abstract; every number is checked against it