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Exposure to hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) in gestation and maternal hypertension both contribute to an elevated risk of chronic hypertension in offspring, as reported in a study.

Short and long sleep durations were tied to higher risks for all-cause, cardiovascular disease (CVD), and cancer mortality, but these may be attenuated by engaging in physical activity (PA), a population-based cohort study suggests.

The duration of acute kidney injury (AKI) was associated with the risks of chronic kidney disease (CKD) but not overall cardiovascular disease (CVD*), a population-based Danish cohort study suggests.

For postmenopausal women with a history of gestational diabetes, delivering high birth weight infants or hypertensive disorders of pregnancy poses a heightened risk of developing type 2 diabetes (T2D) in the future, according to a study.

The gut microbiota-derived metabolite trimethylamine-N-oxide (TMAO) is significantly associated with the risk of stroke, according to a study.