Are you planning to get pregnant after 40? You may want to rethink it as a new study suggests that women who become pregnant at age 40 or older may face a greater risk of a stroke later in life. Lead researcher Adnan I. Qureshi from the Zeenat Qureshi Stroke Institute in St. Cloud Minnesota said that they already knew that older women were more likely than younger women to experience health problems during their pregnancy adding Now we know that the consequences of that later pregnancy stretch years into the future. Qureshi added that this finding was especially important