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When women with diabetes become pregnant, they face not only the typical challenges of pregnancy and impending parenthood, but also a scary statistic: they're five times more likely to have a baby with a congenital heart defect.
A newly-released study extends the understanding of how acquired mutations in blood cells act as a new cardiovascular risk factor. Details were reported by the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC), Spanish National Center for Cardiovascular Research, the research entity which facilitated the study, published in the journal, Nature Cardiovascular Research.
Researchers saw an uptick in coronary artery disease, atrial fibrillation, and type 2 diabetes in individuals with frequent depressed mood across polygenic risk scores.