APS Metabolic Mechanisms Contributing to Reversible Pregnancy-induced Cardiac Growth

In this webinar, Helen Collins, PhD, will describe the current state of knowledge of cardiovascular adaptations during a healthy pregnancy and the potential risk factors for developing pregnancy-associated cardiovascular diseases. She will describe work from her laboratory that uses multi-omics approaches to understand the underlying metabolic mechanisms that contribute to pregnancy-induced cardiac growth. Collins will describe the contributions of the ancillary biosynthetic pathways of glucose metabolism, which provide the building blocks to facilitate cardiac growth, and the contributions of myocardial ketone body metabolism in maintaining mitochondrial energetics in the maternal heart. Learn more and register.

This webinar is part of APS’ Women’s Health: A Physiological Analysis webinar series. Don’t miss the other webinars in this series and learn more about the Women’s Health Research Initiative.