Chronic disease on the rise among women at childbearing age

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Australia; NSW

Priscilla Du Preez

More Australian women are being treated for chronic health conditions around childbearing age, according to a local study. Researchers looked at a range of survey data, health records, pharmacy records and death data to examine the prevalence of ten chronic diseases in women that could impact birth outcomes. Comparing a cohort of women born in the mid 1970s to a group born in the early 1990s, they found while the older group had a greater lifetime risk of chronic health conditions, the younger group were more likely to have chronic health conditions around the age of 25-30.

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Organisation/s: The University of Newcastle

Funder: The research on which this paper is based was conducted as part of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health (ALSWH) by the University of Newcastle and The University of Queensland and funded by the Australian Government Department of Health (G1700929). Dr Melissa L. Harris is funded through an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DE190101134).

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