Preeclampsia and Gestational Hypertension Are Associated With Childhood Blood Pressure Independently of Family Adiposity Measures

Abstract

The associations of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy with higher offspring blood pressure are not explained by familial adiposity. The mechanisms linking preeclampsia and gestational hypertension with offspring blood pressure may differ, with the former mediated at least in part by the effect of preeclampsia on intrauterine growth restriction.