Severe Pre-eclampsia Linked with Short-term Adverse CV Changes (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- Results suggest that women with echocardiographic abnormalities may benefit from serial clinical and imaging follow-up (Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular)
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - June 25, 2018 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Doubts raised about value of vitamin D supplements for pregnant women
There is not enough evidence to recommend women take vitamin D supplements during pregnancy to help avoid high blood pressure or pre-eclampsia, according to a major new study. (Source: Nursing Times)
Source: Nursing Times - June 21, 2018 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
Fertile research on the causes of pre-eclampsia
Pre-eclampsia is a potentially life-threatening condition that can develop in pregnant women. A number of factors are known to increase the risk, but the actual causes of this hypertensive disorder remain unclear. Researchers in Kazakhstan were involved in an EU-funded project that discovered an exciting lead: the baby’s genes also appear to play a role. (Source: EUROPA - Research Information Centre)
Source: EUROPA - Research Information Centre - June 11, 2018 Category: Research Source Type: news
Daily dose of aspirin reduces a pregnant woman ’s risk of pre-eclampsia by nearly 40%, study finds
Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh found that expectant mothers are 39 percent less likely to develop pre-eclampsia if they take a low dose of the painkiller every day. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - May 29, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Pre-eclampsia blood test: Melbourne hospital helps develop world-first
Test predicts likelihood of pregnant women developing the condition, which can be fatalA world-first blood test that can help predict the potentially deadly pregnancy condition pre-eclampsia is being introduced at Melbourne ’s Royal Women’s hospital.The hospital helped develop the blood test, which predicts the likelihood of pregnant women developing the condition.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - May 3, 2018 Category: Science Authors: Calla Wahlquist Tags: Melbourne Victoria Health Australia news Science Pregnancy Medical research Indigenous Australians Source Type: news
Experts produce new eclampsia screening method
A technique developed at King ’s College London doubles the rate at which pre-eclampsia is detected - a pregnancy complication responsible for thousands of stillbirths each year - a major study revealed. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 14, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Launch of Cochrane Indonesia to boost production and use of trusted health evidence in Indonesia
In a significant step for national health research and training,Cochrane Indonesia was launched today at Universitas Gadjah Mada in Yogyakarta.Cochrane ’s global CEO Mark Wilson travelled from London to join Cochrane Indonesia’s Director Dr Detty Nurdiati at a formal ceremony to inaugurate the high-profile, independent research organisation’s newest centre.‘Cochrane Indonesia is an important and active part of Cochrane’s global independent network of researchers, professionals, patients, carers and people interested in health consisting of more than 38,000 people from 130 countries,’ Mr Wilson says. ‘And to...
Source: Cochrane News and Events - February 27, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: Muriah Umoquit Source Type: news
‘I could hear things, and I could feel terrible pain’: when anaesthesia fails
Anaesthesia remains a mysterious and inexact science – and thousands of patients still wake up on the operating table every year. By Kate Cole-AdamsWhen Rachel Benmayor was admitted to hospital, eight and a half months pregnant, in 1990, her blood pressure had been alarmingly high and her doctor had told her to stay in bed and get as much rest as possible before the baby came. But her blood pressure kept rising – this condition, known as pre-eclampsia, is not uncommon but can lead to sometimes-fatal complications – and the doctors decided to induce the birth. When her cervix failed to dilate properly after 17 hours o...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 9, 2018 Category: Science Authors: Kate Cole-Adams Tags: Consciousness Medical research Neuroscience Health Society Hospitals Human biology Psychology Books Source Type: news
Many women are left with high blood pressure
New research published in the American Heart Association's Journal Hypertension revealed high blood pressure often goes unnoticed in women who have suffered from pre-eclampsia. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - February 5, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
High BP in Pregnancy Could Mean BP Trouble Later
Pre-eclampsia, which is the development of high blood pressure and elevated protein in the urine during pregnancy, occurs in 3 to 5 percent of pregnancies in developed nations (Source: WebMD Health)
Source: WebMD Health - February 5, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Undetected high blood pressure found in new mums
Study advises women with severe pre-eclampsia to monitor their blood pressure for a year post birth. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - February 5, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Pregnancy-Linked High Blood Pressure May Mean Similar Trouble After Delivery
MONDAY, Feb. 5, 2018 -- Many women who develop severe pre-eclampsia during pregnancy have undetected high blood pressure in the year after they give birth, a Dutch study contends.
Pre-eclampsia, which is the development of high blood pressure and... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - February 5, 2018 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
Probiotic milk may reduce pre-eclampsia and premature birth risk
According to a Scandinavian study inBMJ Open, pregnant women who drink probiotic milk are less likely to suffer some pregnancy complications. Reuters (Source: Society for Endocrinology)
Source: Society for Endocrinology - February 2, 2018 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: news
Probiotic milk tied to lowered risk of some pregnancy complications
(Reuters Health) - Pregnant women who drink milk containing probiotic “friendly” bacteria are less likely to have premature births or pre-eclampsia, a serious complication of pregnancy, suggests a Scandinavian study. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 1, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
Probiotics may lower pre-eclampsia and premature birth risk
Probiotics taken during pregnancy might help lower the risks of pre-eclampsia and premature birth, but timing may be crucial, a study has suggested. (Source: Nursing Times)
Source: Nursing Times - January 24, 2018 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
