They also took other factors into account, including family medical history, and found that the correlation between delivery of an SGA infant and IHD was not affected.
These results suggest that such a pregnancy may induce cardiovascular changes and could be an important early risk factor for heart disease. "If further studies validate our findings, doctors will have a new low-cost, effective way of identifying women at risk for heart disease and they can intervene decades before disease onset", says Dr. Bukowski
Source: Eurekalert
