According to a new study, expecting women who suffer from some complications linked to their pregnancies may have more chances of dying due to heart disease later in life. The study has been published in the American Heart Association's journal Circulation.

It has been reported in a new research that pregnant women experiencing problems associated with their pregnancies are more likely to die from heart disease later in life. The research appeared in the American Heart Association's journal Circulation.

It has been found by researchers that participants with high levels of sugar in the urine during pregnancy were having approximately four times more chances of dying from heart disease as compared to women whose levels of sugar in their urine were not that high when they were expecting.

It was also found by researchers that the women with decreased levels of hemoglobin during pregnancy were nearly two times as likely to die due of heart disease later in life as compared to the expecting women with no decline. The researchers said that the level of hemoglobin in the blood tells how efficiently red blood cells can transport oxygen throughout the body.

According to study author Barbara A. Cohn, director of Child Health and Development Studies at the Public Health Institute in Berkeley, California, "The idea here is not necessarily that these events of pregnancy cause women to die of cardiovascular disease. The idea is that, just like a person's cholesterol level and blood pressure are considered risk factors [for heart disease], so should those pregnancy complications".

In order to carry out the study, the researchers examined approximately 15,500 women in the metropolitan area of Oakland, California, who conceived between 1959 and 1967.