Gestational Intermittent Hypoxia Programs Pregnancy-Specific Salt-Sensitive Postpartum Hypertension and Vascular Dysfunction via Disruption of NO/cGMP/PKG Pathway†.

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), common in pregnancy, is linked to preeclampsia and long-term maternal hypertension, but the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. We hypothesized that intermittent hypoxia (IH), a core feature of OSA, primes the materna…

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