Pregnant women with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) were more prone to cardiovascular complications during delivery, and their risk seems to have increased over the past 15 years, according to national administrative data.
The cross-sectional study supports the role that the underlying inflammatory activity of SLE may play in these cardiovascular complications, since even after adjustment for cardiometabolic risk factors, SLE remained an independent predictor of the following adverse events during delivery hospitalization:
