Even healthy women appear to have dramatically higher risks for heart attacks and strokes in the first decade after a preeclamptic pregnancy, a new study has found.
Early in the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, pregnant women were thought to be at unusually high risk from the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) compared to the general population or non-pregnant women. However, later studies failed to agree on the extent and nature of the danger posed by the infection.