Cardio-oncology & otherCross-sectional study
Intersectional Inequities in Age-Related Risk of Adverse Maternal Cardiometabolic Health
- Cross-sectional study
- statewide hospital discharge data
Study context
- Population
- Births (live and stillbirths) at ≥20 weeks' gestation among Black and White women, California, 2007–2019
- Participants
- 1,880,400 births
- Exposure
- Black vs White
- Outcome
- HDP (chronic hypertension, gestational hypertension or preeclampsia, or eclampsia) and subtypes; nonoptimal CV health before and during pregnancy (hypertension, diabetes, smoking, BMI, gestational weight gain)
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Age-related risk of adverse maternal cardiometabolic outcomes by race and SES
- Black · college-educated Black women
- higher risk of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) per 5-year increase in age 27% (95% CI 1.24–1.29)
- White · White women with high school degree or less
- higher risk of HDP per 5-year increase in age 23% (95% CI 1.22–1.24)
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Original publication
Intersectional Inequities in Age-Related Risk of Adverse Maternal Cardiometabolic Health. JAMA Cardiol. Published 26 August 2026. doi:10.1001/jamacardio.2026.3051
Summarised from the published abstract; every number is checked against it