(1) Acute atherosis does generally not associate with classical cardiovascular risk factors in pregnant women. 237 women were included in the study, and neither in healthy pregnancies nor pregnancies complicated with preeclampsia, diabetes mellitus or both were acute atherosis linked to hyperlipidemia, glucose intolerance, elevated C-reactive protein, age or body mass index. In the full cohort, acute atherosis linked to higher systolic blood pressure, probably because more women with preeclampsia had acute atherosis. In the pregnant women aged 36 or older, acute atherosis was associated with higher levels of LDL and apolipoprotein B.

(2) 10-year scoring systems for cardiovascular disease risk are inapplicable one year post-partum since most women giving birth are below 40 years of age. Thus, Moe and colleagues used three longer-term risk scales to assess cardiovascular risk in 235 women. Generally, the risk score was only marginally increased in women with hypertensive pregnancies complication compared to women with normotensive pregnancies.

(3) Women with preeclampsia or gestational hypertension have significantly elevated pulse wave velocity levels one year post-partum compared to women with healthy pregnancies. However, the association disappeared after adjusting for other markers of vascular function. Augmentation index, carotid wall thickness and reactive hyperemia index were not altered one year after hypertensive pregnancies.