The age at which women experience their first pregnancy has increased throughout the decades. Pregnancy has an important influence on maternal short- and long-term cardiovascular outcomes. Pregnancy at an advanced maternal age increases maternal risk of gestational diabetes, preeclampsia, placenta previa and caesarian delivery; complications which predict worsened cardiovascular health in later...

Maternal age of 35 years and over has increased in Western countries as well as in Finland during the last decades. The purpose of this retrospective register-based study was to explore the risks and complications related to pregnancy and birth of women aged 35 years or older, when comparing them to younger women aged less than 35 years old. Pregnancy outcomes and complications were observed in...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of maternal age on perinatal and obstetric outcome in women aged 40-44 years and those 45 years or older and to estimate whether adverse outcome was related to intercurrent illness and pregnancy complications. METHODS National prospective, population-based, cohort study in women aged 40-44 years and those 45 years or older and i...