title: Cardiac diastolic dysfunction and metabolic syndrome in young women after placental syndrome.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To estimate whether women with a recent history of a placental syndrome and concomitant metabolic syndrome have reduced cardiac diastolic function.
  
  
  METHODS
  In this cohort study, women with a history of a placental syndrome were included. We assessed body mass index, blood pressure, fasting serum lipids, glucose and insulin levels, and 24-hour urinary protein and albumin output after an interval of at least 6 months postpartum. Cardiac diastolic function was assessed by echocardiography.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Metabolic syndrome was found in 22% of the women evaluated. Diastolic dysfunction was seen in 24% of the women with the metabolic syndrome compared with 6.3% in those without (odds ratio 4.77, 95% confidence interval 2.18-10.41; adjusted odds ratio 6.09, 95% confidence interval 2.64-14.04). Univariable analysis showed that all the constituents of the metabolic syndrome related to diastolic dysfunction.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In women with a history of placental syndrome complicating pregnancy, the presence of metabolic syndrome increases the risk of cardiac diastolic dysfunction fourfold.
  
  
  METHODS
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authors.affiliation: From the Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Cardiology, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
authors.forename: Mirjam
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zandstra
authors.forename: Eva
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Stekkinger
authors.forename: Maureen J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: van der Vlugt
authors.forename: Arie P
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: van Dijk
authors.forename: Frederik K
authors.initials: FK
authors.lastname: Lotgering
authors.forename: Marc E A
authors.initials: MEA
authors.lastname: Spaanderman
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D015897:Comorbidity; D003971:Diastole / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D005317:Fetal Growth Retardation / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D006946:Hyperinsulinism / Q000453:epidemiology; D024821:Metabolic Syndrome; D010922:Placenta Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D011225:Pre-Eclampsia / Q000453:epidemiology; D011247:Pregnancy; D011379:Prognosis; D018754:Ventricular Dysfunction / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000503:physiopathology*