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Cardiorespiratory fitness, exercise haemodynamics and birth outcomes: the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults Study.


ABSTRACT:

Objective

Determine associations of cardiorespiratory fitness, exercise systolic blood pressure (SBP) and heart rate recovery (HRR) following a maximal exercise test performed years preceding pregnancy with odds of preterm birth (PTB; <37 weeks' gestation) and small for gestational age (SGA; birthweight <10th percentile) delivery.

Design

Prospective, longitudinal.

Setting

Multi-site, observational cohort study initially consisting of 2787 black and white women aged 18-30 at baseline (1985-86) and followed for 25 years (Y25; 2010-2011).

Population

768 nulliparous women at baseline who reported ?1 live birth by the Y25 exam.

Methods

We used Poisson regression to determine associations of exposures with PTB/SGA.

Main outcome measures

PTB and/or SGA births.

Results

Women with PTB (n = 143) and/or SGA (n = 88) were younger, had completed fewer years of education and were more likely to be black versus women without PTB/SGA (n = 546). Women with PTB/SGA had lower fitness (501 ± 9 versus 535 ± 6 seconds, P < 0.002) and higher submaximal SBP than women without PTB/SGA (144 ± 1 versus 142 ± 1 mmHg, P < 0.04). After adjustment, no exercise test variables were associated with PTB/SGA, though the association with HRR and submaximal SBP approached significance in the subset of women who completed the exercise test <5 years before the index birth.

Conclusions

Neither fitness nor haemodynamic responses to exercise a median of 5 years preceding pregnancy, were associated with PTB/SGA. These findings indicate excess likelihood of PTB/SGA is not detectable by low fitness or exercise haemodynamic responses 5 years preceding pregnancy, but exercise testing, especially HRR and submaximal SBP, may be more useful when conducted closer to the onset of pregnancy.

Tweetable abstract

Exercise testing conducted >5 years before pregnancy may not detect women likely to have PTB/SGA.

SUBMITTER: Lane-Cordova AD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6045450 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Cardiorespiratory fitness, exercise haemodynamics and birth outcomes: the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults Study.

Lane-Cordova A D AD   Carnethon M R MR   Catov J M JM   Montag S S   Lewis C E CE   Schreiner P J PJ   Dude A A   Sternfeld B B   Badon S E SE   Greenland P P   Gunderson E P EP  

BJOG : an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology 20180302 9


<h4>Objective</h4>Determine associations of cardiorespiratory fitness, exercise systolic blood pressure (SBP) and heart rate recovery (HRR) following a maximal exercise test performed years preceding pregnancy with odds of preterm birth (PTB; <37 weeks' gestation) and small for gestational age (SGA; birthweight <10<sup>th</sup> percentile) delivery.<h4>Design</h4>Prospective, longitudinal.<h4>Setting</h4>Multi-site, observational cohort study initially consisting of 2787 black and white women ag  ...[more]

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