Characterization of cardiometabolic risk in middle aged women with a history of pre-eclampsia in the last decade

Introduction: The history of pre-eclampsia becomes a cardiometabolic risk. Objectives: To characterize the cardiometabolic risk in middle aged women with a history of pre-eclampsia. Method: Descriptive, retrospective study with 76 women, selected by a simple random method, at the Hospital Gineco-Obstétrico Mariana Grajales in Santa Clara, between 2017 and 2018. Results: The pre-eclampsia was observed in 75% of women with a history of only high blood pressure, in 76.5% of those with high blood pressure and diabetes mellitus, in 66.7% of those with high blood pressure and dyslipidemia, and in 62.5% of those where high blood pressure, diabetes mellitus and dyslipidemia are associated. From the 71 women with abdominal circumference greater than 88 cm, an association with previous pre-eclampsia was found in 74.6%; an 80.3% resulted to be obese and only 28.2% had no other cardiometabolic risk factors. From the 55 women (72.4%) who had altered blood pressure levels 53 (96.4%) had a history of pre-eclampsia for a positive predictive value greater than 95%. The metabolic syndrome was significantly related with high blood pressure (χ2=4.3; p=0.039) and who suffered from it have about six times a higher risk than the ones who do not. From the total of women, 11 (14.5%) had metabolic syndrome, and among these, 9 (81.8%) had a history of pre-eclampsia. Conclusions: The history of pre-eclampsia is related to cardiometabolic risk factors as obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes mellitus and dyslipidemia, thereby increasing the cardiometabolic risk for these patients.