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High blood pressure in pregnancy, DNA methylation, and later blood pressure in African American women enrolled in the InterGEN Study.

Veronica BarcelonaZeyuan WangCindy A CrustoQin HuiYan V SunJacquelyn Y Taylor
Published in: Birth (Berkeley, Calif.) (2020)
We observed a small, but clinically significant, increase in BP in women who reported high BP in pregnancy 3-5 years after that pregnancy. Future studies with larger sample sizes should examine epigenetic contributions to this finding.
Keyphrases
  • pregnancy outcomes
  • blood pressure
  • dna methylation
  • african american
  • preterm birth
  • pregnant women
  • polycystic ovary syndrome
  • gene expression
  • heart rate
  • hypertensive patients
  • genome wide