PREGNANCY HISTORY IS HEART HISTORY.
What does your pregnancy history
mean for your heart?
What happened during pregnancy belongs beside your blood pressure, bloodwork and family history.
Bring those details and your questions together in one Heart Story for your next healthcare visit.
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Looking for the age tool? Open the heart-age research preview and its limits →
Start with what happened to you.
Tell your clinician about pregnancy complications, even if they happened years ago. Bring the diagnosis, timing, treatment and anything you are unsure about. Your care team can decide how this history fits your current health and follow-up.
Your history still matters in midlife.
Pregnancy may have been years ago. Your earlier period patterns, a PCOS diagnosis and when menopause happened also belong in the conversation about your heart. Bring these details together with your current blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar results.
Heart Story includes a periods and midlife section. Record what you know, including whether menopause followed surgery or treatment. You can leave uncertain details blank.
Make the next visit more useful.
- Your history. Record pregnancy complications, when they happened and anything you are unsure about.
- Your information. Bring dated blood pressure or laboratory results and your medicine list.
- Your question. “Does my pregnancy history change what we should check for my heart now?”
- Your agreed plan. Record the next action, who to contact and when.
What Heart Story can and cannot do
Heart Story brings your notes, questions and follow-up together in a summary you can save or print. It does not calculate a heart age or risk score, diagnose a condition or choose treatment. Review your notes with your care team.
Answers stay in the tab unless you save a copy. Heart Story does not contact your clinician, monitor symptoms or send reminders.
What does “heart age” mean?
A heart-age estimate expresses estimated cardiovascular risk as an age. It is not a measurement of your heart’s biological age and cannot diagnose or rule out disease. Heart Story does not produce that estimate.
OPTIONAL RESEARCH PREVIEW
Explore the heart-age prototype.
Our existing research prototype uses the Framingham equation to show a comparison age. Pregnancy and menopause history do not change its numerical result. It is not a biological heart age or a clinically validated HEART RESERVE score.
Evidence and HEART RESERVE’s research goal
Pregnancy complications can matter to cardiovascular care long after delivery. Read the American Heart Association statement on pregnancy history and the 2024 statement on prevention after pregnancy complications.
The 2026 cholesterol guideline’s women’s health guidance includes pregnancy complications, PCOS and menopause before age 45 in cardiovascular assessment. The AHA menopause statement explains why midlife is an important time for prevention. These details inform a clinical conversation; this tool does not turn them into a heart-age number.
Our research goal is to test whether pregnancy history can improve cardiovascular prediction and support useful follow-up. That requires outcome data and independent testing. A clinically validated pregnancy-adjusted HEART RESERVE score is not available here.