By Khadijah Alibhai In Ethiopia, 412 women die per 100,000 live births. Most of these deaths are preventable, and 19 percent of them are from hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, including pre-eclampsia and eclampsia (PE/E). Typically, pre-eclampsia is detectable during early…
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Diabetes and pre-eclampsia affecting pregnancy: a retrospective cross-sectional study
Journal of Investigative Medicine, 2017 Results showed that regardless of diabetes status, patients with pre-eclampsia delivered prematurely. Patients in the group with pre-eclampsia and pregestational diabetes delivered much earlier, when compared with the patients that had pre-eclampsia with gestational diabetes…
First-trimester smoking cessation in pregnancy did not increase the risk of preeclampsia/eclampsia: A Murmansk County Birth Registry Study
PLOS One, 2017 Pre-eclampsia/eclampsia (PE/E) is associated with maternal age, education, marital status, parity, excessive weight gain, and body mass index at the first antenatal visit. There was a negative dose-response relationship between the number of smoked cigarettes per day during pregnancy and…
Serum Fatty Acid Binding Protein 4 (FABP4) Predicts Pre-Eclampsia in Women With Type 1 Diabetes
Diabetes Care, 2016 For each doubling of serum fatty acid binding protein 4 (FABP4) levels, the risk of pre-eclampsia increased by 40 percent and 60 percent at 14 and 26 weeks, respectively.
Pre-eclampsia is associated with a two-fold increase in diabetes: a systematic review and meta analysis
This systematic review and meta-analysis of 21 studies, including more than 2.8 million women, suggests that there is an association of pre-eclampsia with future incident diabetes. The risk of diabetes in women who had experienced preeclampsia was approximately double that of women without a history…
