Histopathology findings in low- and high-risk women
The frequency of placenta lesions between women who screened low- and
high-risk for lifetime CVD are shown in Table 3 . A total of 5
placentas (15.6%) in the low-risk group, and 6 placentas (11.3%) in
the high-risk group had no observed pathology (p=0.74). The mean
cumulative severity score (sum of scores for all categories) for the
low-risk group was 3.1 ± 2.2 and 3.6 ± 2.4 for the high-risk group
(p=0.374). By etiological category, women who screened high-risk for
lifetime CVD had placentas with more severe lesions of MVM (score ≥2:
54.7% vs 28.1%, p=0.017), however, the frequency of individual lesions
belonging to the MVM category were not found to be significantly
different between the groups.