A new study suggests that mothers who have just given birth to twins are at higher risk of heart disease in the weeks and months following their birth.
The risk of being hospitalized for heart problems in women with twins doubles within a year of giving birth, researchers report in the European Heart Journal.
The risk is even higher, up to eight times higher, when high blood pressure is present during pregnancy, according to the researchers.
The heart of mothers of twins works harder than other mothers during pregnancy, Dr. Ruby Lin, a medicine researcher at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Jersey, said in a news release.
The lead researcher added that this condition can take weeks to resolve after the twins are born.
