Preeclampsia is a solemn pregnancy complication that affects approximately 10% of pregnant women and increases the risk of hypertension, stroke, premature birth and maternal death. Scientists have found that a basic, routine blood test performed on women going into labor can predict their risk of preeclampsia. Scientists presented a groundbreaking discovery at the ANESTHESILOGY 2024 […]
Obesity increases health complications during pregnancy, including miscarriage, premature birth and preeclampsia. Researchers found that being overweight during pregnancy increases this risk regardless of the woman’s country of birth. The latest study by scientists from Linköping University and Karolinska Institutet in Sweden examined the risk of complications faced by overweight pregnant women, both those born […]
The study found that having low-weight babies increases women’s risk of developing dementia later in life. In the latest test published in the journal Neurology, researchers found that women who gave birth to babies weighing less than 5.5 pounds had a greater risk of developing memory and cognitive problems later in life, compared to women […]
