Researchers at the University of Queensland have found that women with a history of miscarriage and stillbirth are at a higher risk of suffering a stroke later in life.
Comparing pooled data from more than 610,000 women in Australia and six other countries, the study found that the risk of stroke increased with multiple pregnancy losses.
Senior author of the study, UQ School of Public Health’s Professor Gita Mishra, said in a release on Thursday that many women were not aware that pregnancy loss was an early alert for disease risk later in life.
“This is the first study big enough to demonstrate a robust link between stroke and recurrent miscarriage and very rare events like recurrent stillbirths,” she said….