Title: How to stop women developing hypertension after preeclampsia
Abstract: Women who develop hypertension during a pregnancy are known to be at significantly increased risk for future cardiovascular diseases, including recurrence of hypertension. Current guidelines advise enhanced monitoring of traditional risk factors to try and identify when disease reemerges. However, we may be missing an opportunity to delay, or prevent, disease ever recurring. The cardiovascular system goes through very rapid, adverse changes during a hypertensive pregnancy, that need to reverse post-partum. Observational studies and randomised trials have now revealed that the first couple of months after a hypertensive pregnancy may be a critical period for cardiovascular recovery, during which time, the way we manage the health of the mother could be fixing their risk of future disease for years to come.
Biography: Paul Leeson is Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Academic Lead for Innovation within the Medical Sciences Division at the University of Oxford. His research group has pioneered the application of AI to imaging and clinical data to identify better ways to manage cardiovascular disease in young people. The work has ranged from insights into how pregnancy complications, and interventions early in life, impact the cardiovascular system, to development of new imaging diagnostics, now in clinical use. He chairs a UK NIHR Invention for Innovation funding panel as well as being a member of the NIHR Doctoral Awards Panel and UK Biobank Imaging Advisory Board. He has a broad experience within innovation and cardiovascular prevention, having previously been a member of the NICE Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Guideline Committee and Chair of the research nucleus of the European Association of Preventive Cardiology.
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