Category Archives: Peeclampsia
High Doses of Vitamins May Not Prevent Preeclampsia, Says Study
According to Reuters, high doses of vitamins C and E may not lower a woman’s risk of developing a pregnancy complication from high blood pressure. A new analysis of previous studies have found no evidence of benefit to women taking 1,000 milligrams of vitamin C and 400 IU of vitamin E to prevent deadly pregnancy complication known as preeclampsia. Researchers examined nine studies involving nearly 20,000 women and found that women given extra doses of vitamins C and E had a higher risk of other pregnancy complications. Most doctors suggest that pregnant women should not take these high doses of vitamins to lower their risk of preeclampsia. A study author Dr. Sonia S. Hassan agrees with these medical suggestions, saying that systematic analysts routinely does not recommend the use of vitamin C and E. Another study published a year ago found that 5,000 women taking high doses of vitamin C…
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Preeclampsia Study Links Disorder to Autoimmune Enzyme
According to Business Week, a new research study found that women who develop preeclampsia might have an overabundance of a gene that helps regulate the body’s immune system. The study’s findings hope to improve screening and prenatal care of patients at risk and their unborn. The North Carolina State University researchers focused on preeclampsia as an autoimmune disorder, where the mother’s body regards the placenta as an unknown invader. The researchers compared genetic analyses of placenta from women with preeclampsia to women with normal pregnancies. The study found placentas from preeclampsia patients had genes associated with a particular autoimmune pathway, and there was more genes present than in women with normal placentas. A particular enzyme involved in sialic acid modification was upregulated, meaning there was more of it present, which causes disruption in the body’s ability to identify invaders from non-invaders. Such a regulation disruption results in the body attacking…
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New Medical Advances to Fight Preeclampsia
Scientists are prepared to develop a potential lab test in order to diagnose the pregnancy complication known as preeclampsia. Preeclampsia often leads to premature delivery and can be fatal to both mother and baby. Researchers at Brown University and Women and Infants Hospital have also created a well defined animal model of preeclampsia. Study representatives report that the modal is the first pregnancy specific animal model and the predictive assay is the first where the researchers are able to go back to the first trimester to predict problems. Based upon research that has shown to link the immune system secretion IL-10 with a successful pregnancy, researchers began experimenting with mice genetically engineered to lack IL-10. The hypothesis was that if they isolated blood serum from human patients with preeclampsia and gave a dose of it to the mice that the mice would develop symptoms of preeclampsia. The significance of having…
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