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 TaylorPublished 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.