Scaling text and shape made in lower res file?

I created a selection, filled it and put text on top of it in a 72 ppi file and copied the group to an image with much higher resolution. I transformed the shape and text to make it bigger. Does doing this affect quality? It looked ok, I'm just curious.
Thanks.

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However, there's a pitfall if you place the 72 ppi document as a Smart Object in a 200 ppi document. The SO will be automatically scaled to maintain its size in inches in the new document. The fact that it is scaled isn't a problem in itself since you'd be doing that manually if it wasn't automatic. But when the SO is scaled, the pixel representation of its embedded document (not the embedded file itself which remains unchanged) will be scaled and (non-destructively) degraded by resampling in the same way as a regular pixel layer would be.
You can avoid the SO scaling problem by opening the 72 ppi document, or a duplicate, and using Image > Image Size to resample it to 200 ppi. That higher resolution document can be used itself or it can be placed as a Smart Object in other 200 ppi documents.
By the way, characters of a given size of font will be rendered with slightly different forms in documents of differing resolution to maintain legibility despite increasing pixelation in lower resolution documents.

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