Is Maternal Obesity the Achilles' Heel of Sustainable Efforts to Reduce Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes?

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¹ Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Electronic address: Gsharma8@jhmi.edu.
² Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
³ Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Warren Alpert School of Medicine, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.

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Garima Sharma et al. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2021.

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. 2021 Mar 16;77(10):1327-1330.

doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2021.01.023.

¹ Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Electronic address: Gsharma8@jhmi.edu.
² Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
³ Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Warren Alpert School of Medicine, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.

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Keywords: cardiovascular outcomes; obesity; pre-eclampsia.

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Funding Support and Author Disclosures The authors have reported that they have no relationships relevant to the contents of this paper to disclose.

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