ABOUT MIDAS

Pregnancy is an opportunity to screen women at high-risk for cardiovascular disease so that prevention strategies can be implemented. Arterial stiffness measured by pulse wave velocity is a marker for cardiovascular disease risk. This study enrolls mother-infant pairs from healthy pregnancies and those complicated by adverse perinatal outcomes to measure maternal and infant arterial stiffness by pulse wave velocity and cardiovascular biomarkers. We will longitudinally estimate cardiovascular disease risk in healthy and medically complicated pregnant women and their infants from birth to three years postpartum

TEAM

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PIs

• Dr. Michelle Meyer, UNC
• Dr. Kim Boggess, UNC

​CO-Is

• Dr. Lee Stoner, UNC
• Dr. Marcella Boynton, UNC
• Dr. Malia Blue, UNC, Diversity Supplement
• Dr. Ashley Battarbee, UAB
• Dr. Jeff Szychowski, UAB
• Dr. Noelia Zork, Columbia

Senior Support

• Amber Ivins, UNC, Project Coordinator
• Karen Dorman, UNC
• Lauren Bates, UNC, GRA
• Jake Diana, UNC, GRA
• Mia Damare, UNC, GRA
• Gabe Zieff, UNC, GRA

INTRODUCTION TO: RESEACH DEVICES/TECHNIQUES

Pulse Wave Analysis (PWA)

Pulse Wave Velocity (PWV)

HOW TO: ​RESEACH DEVICES/TECHNIQUES

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