• Olga Basso, Clarice R Weinberg, Aimee A D'Aloisio, and Dale P Sandler.
• Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Royal Victoria Hospital, Research Institute of McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada.
• Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol. 2019 Mar 1; 33 (2): 129-136.

BackgroundSome cardiovascular disease risk factors are associated with both risk of preeclampsia and having been born to a younger or older mother. We examined whether mother's age at delivery predicts a primiparous daughter's risk of preeclampsia.MethodsThe analysis included 39 803 Sister Study participants (designated as "daughters") born between 1930 and 1974. Using log-binomial regression, we estimated relative risks (RR) of preeclampsia in the first pregnancy ending in birth ("primiparous preeclampsia") associated with mother's age at the daughter's birth. Models included: number of older full and maternal half-siblings, income level growing up, daughter's age at delivery, race/ethnicity, and 5-year birth cohort. We examined self-reported relative weight at age 10 (heavier than peers versus not) as a potential effect measure modifier.ResultsOverall, 6.2% of daughters reported preeclampsia. Compared with those who had been born to 20-24-year old mothers, daughters of teenage mothers had a relative risk of 1.20 (95% confidence interval (CI) 1.01, 1.43) and daughters of mothers ≥25 had a ~10% lower risk. Relative weight at age 10 modified the association, with an inverse association between mother's age at delivery and preeclampsia seen only among daughters with low/normal childhood relative weight. In this subset, results were consistent across strata of daughter's age at menarche and age at first birth.ConclusionsThese findings, based on self-reported data, require replication. Nevertheless, as women increasingly delay childbearing, they provide some reassurance that having been born to an older mother is not, per se, a risk factor for primiparous preeclampsia.© 2019 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

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