Hisham A Ben Lamin
Clinical Cardiologist, Spain
Title: High risk pregnancies and future cardiovascular diseases
Biography
Biography: Hisham A Ben Lamin
Abstract
Management of Cardiovascular Diseases in both sexes is equal, and we as Cardiologists usually meet with our patients of both sexes with CHD late in life, where at this level of interference the damage has already took place and we can only try to manipulate this damage. Women on the other side are at risk of developing CVD across most of their lives due to hormonal level variations, starting in early puberty, passing by adulthood curving around pregnancies and reaching menopause and post menopause era. Here I would like to put emphasis on pregnant women without CVD and developing high risk pregnancies in the form of preeclampsia, GDM, PPCM, and giving birth to low weight babies. At this level these women will start a subclinical progressive atherosclerosis that will be clinical within 1-10 years post-partum, exposing these women to CV events endangering their lives. These changes can be avoided in millions of women if we act early preventing future damage. If we add to this group those who are already having an existing heart diseases-acquired or congenital- and those who had Cancer therapy and developed Cardiotoxicity, the damage is more and may be fatal. The message here is early preventing these women from crossing to the damaging zone.