A D Lane-Cordova1,2, M R Carnethon1, J M Catov3,4, S Montag1, C E Lewis5, P J Schreiner6, A Dude7, B Sternfeld8, S E Badon9, P Greenland1, E P Gunderson8. 1. Department of Preventive Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA. 2. Department of Exercise Science, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA. 3. Departments of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences and Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. 4. Department of Magee-Women's Research Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. 5. Division of Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA. 6. Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA. 7. Department of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA. 8. Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, USA. 9. Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Determine associations of cardiorespiratory fitness, exercise systolic blood pressure (SBP) and heart rate recovery (HRR) following a maximal exercise test performed years preceding pregnancy with odds of preterm birth (PTB; <37 weeks' gestation) and small for gestational age (SGA; birthweight <10th percentile) delivery. DESIGN: Prospective, longitudinal. SETTING: Multi-site, observational cohort study initially consisting of 2787 black and white women aged 18-30 at baseline (1985-86) and followed for 25 years (Y25; 2010-2011). POPULATION: 768 nulliparous women at baseline who reported ≥1 live birth by the Y25 exam. METHODS: We used Poisson regression to determine associations of exposures with PTB/SGA. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: PTB and/or SGA births. RESULTS: Women with PTB (n = 143) and/or SGA (n = 88) were younger, had completed fewer years of education and were more likely to be black versus women without PTB/SGA (n = 546). Women with PTB/SGA had lower fitness (501 ± 9 versus 535 ± 6 seconds, P < 0.002) and higher submaximal SBP than women without PTB/SGA (144 ± 1 versus 142 ± 1 mmHg, P < 0.04). After adjustment, no exercise test variables were associated with PTB/SGA, though the association with HRR and submaximal SBP approached significance in the subset of women who completed the exercise test <5 years before the index birth. CONCLUSIONS: Neither fitness nor haemodynamic responses to exercise a median of 5 years preceding pregnancy, were associated with PTB/SGA. These findings indicate excess likelihood of PTB/SGA is not detectable by low fitness or exercise haemodynamic responses 5 years preceding pregnancy, but exercise testing, especially HRR and submaximal SBP, may be more useful when conducted closer to the onset of pregnancy. TWEETABLE ABSTRACT: Exercise testing conducted >5 years before pregnancy may not detect women likely to have PTB/SGA.
OBJECTIVE: Determine associations of cardiorespiratory fitness, exercise systolic blood pressure (SBP) and heart rate recovery (HRR) following a maximal exercise test performed years preceding pregnancy with odds of preterm birth (PTB; <37 weeks' gestation) and small for gestational age (SGA; birthweight <10th percentile) delivery. DESIGN: Prospective, longitudinal. SETTING: Multi-site, observational cohort study initially consisting of 2787 black and white women aged 18-30 at baseline (1985-86) and followed for 25 years (Y25; 2010-2011). POPULATION: 768 nulliparous women at baseline who reported ≥1 live birth by the Y25 exam. METHODS: We used Poisson regression to determine associations of exposures with PTB/SGA. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: PTB and/or SGA births. RESULTS: Women with PTB (n = 143) and/or SGA (n = 88) were younger, had completed fewer years of education and were more likely to be black versus women without PTB/SGA (n = 546). Women with PTB/SGA had lower fitness (501 ± 9 versus 535 ± 6 seconds, P < 0.002) and higher submaximal SBP than women without PTB/SGA (144 ± 1 versus 142 ± 1 mmHg, P < 0.04). After adjustment, no exercise test variables were associated with PTB/SGA, though the association with HRR and submaximal SBP approached significance in the subset of women who completed the exercise test <5 years before the index birth. CONCLUSIONS: Neither fitness nor haemodynamic responses to exercise a median of 5 years preceding pregnancy, were associated with PTB/SGA. These findings indicate excess likelihood of PTB/SGA is not detectable by low fitness or exercise haemodynamic responses 5 years preceding pregnancy, but exercise testing, especially HRR and submaximal SBP, may be more useful when conducted closer to the onset of pregnancy. TWEETABLE ABSTRACT: Exercise testing conducted >5 years before pregnancy may not detect women likely to have PTB/SGA.
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