Women’s Heart Advisor Ask The Doctors: April 2017

Im a 37-year-old woman who reads Heart Advisor, because I subscribed for my mother and stepfather. I find it very educational, because I am interested in doing everything I can to lower my risk of heart disease after losing my father to a heart attack way too young. Recently I read a news clip that a first pregnancy resulting in a preterm birth increased the chances the mother would develop heart disease later in life. My first child, now age 6, was born at 35 weeks gestation. Does that put me at increased risk?