{"id":241412,"date":"2026-07-23T04:05:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T09:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/pregnancy-complications-linked-to-long-term-risk-of-peripheral-artery-disease"},"modified":"2026-07-23T04:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T09:05:12","slug":"pregnancy-complications-linked-to-long-term-risk-of-peripheral-artery-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/pregnancy-complications-linked-to-long-term-risk-of-peripheral-artery-disease","title":{"rendered":"Pregnancy complications linked to long-term risk of peripheral artery disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pregnancy-complications-linked-to-long-term-risk-of-peripheral-artery-disease.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Women who experience pregnancy complications such as gestational diabetes, preeclampsia or preterm delivery have a significantly increased long-term risk of developing peripheral artery disease (PAD) later in life, according to a new study published in <a href=\"https:\/\/plos.io\/4yoG0M0\" target=\"_blank\"><i>PLOS Medicine<\/i><\/a> by Casey Crump of the University of Texas, U.S., and colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>PAD, a condition in which narrowed arteries reduce blood flow to the limbs, affects more than 230 million people worldwide and is a strong predictor of future stroke, ischemic heart disease and premature mortality. Adverse pregnancy outcomes have been identified as risk factors for other cardiovascular diseases, but their association with long-term PAD risk had not been well established.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women who experience pregnancy complications such as gestational diabetes, preeclampsia or preterm delivery have a significantly increased long-term risk of developing peripheral artery disease (PAD) later in life, according to a new study published in PLOS Medicine by Casey Crump of the University of Texas, U.S., and colleagues. PAD, a condition in which narrowed arteries [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}