Screening for pregnancy complications

Complications in pregnancy may predispose mothers to later vascular and metabolic disease. Sattar and Greer (p 157) say that these women should be screened and given relevant health education. To help ensure that appropriate women are screened, they suggest that adverse pregnancy outcomes could be used in general practitioners' computer databases for targeted health screening programmes. The potential for modifying risk factors before a subsequent pregnancy or in early pregnancy also requires further investigation.

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