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Hypertension, regardless of blood pressure control, appears to exert a negative influence on fecundability in women, as reported in a study.

For both women and men, BMI that is outside of the normal category during the preconception or early-pregnancy periods is a risk factor for lower fecundability, subfertility, and miscarriage, as reported in a cohort study.

In women with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), factors such as disease activity prior to and during conception as well as the presence of secondary antiphospholipid syndrome convey heightened risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes, according to the results of a systematic review and meta-analysis.

In postmenopausal women, breast adiposity appears to influence various adverse body composition and metabolic factors, suggests a study.

Prediabetes in adolescent or young adult females has been linked to increased likelihood of gestational diabetes and adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes at first birth in a recent retrospective cohort study.

Gestational carriers, or surrogate mothers, are at increased risk for severe maternal morbidity (SMM) and adverse pregnancy outcomes than women who conceived with and without assistance, reports a recent study.

In women with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis (AS), transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is superior to conventional surgery in terms of reducing death, stroke, and rehospitalization at 1 year, according to the RHEIA* trial presented at ESC 2024.