UTS leads world-first study into pregnancy and cardiac complications
" alt="Liz receiving award" title="">Assistant Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Research, Professor Elizabeth Sullivan, along with a team of experts in the fields of obstetric and cardiac medicine and Aboriginal Health, are investigating the impact of cardiovascular complications in pregnant women in their recent research project.
Initiating the first ever longitudinal population-based study with first-time NSW mothers, the study will examine the epidemiology, cardiac, maternal and perinatal outcomes of women with cardiac disease in pregnancy in NSW giving birth for the first time.
To facilitate, the team have recently been awarded the acclaimed Heart Foundation NSW Cardiovascular Network Women and Heart Disease Grant for 2016 – the only of its kind this year; along with data and doctoral scholarship funding from the University of Technology, Sydney.
Their study will be able to better assist pregnant women through the development of a national resource that will provide a platform for evidence to be used by governments, clinicians, advocacy groups and all Australian women considering pregnancy.
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