Yale University

Pregnancy complications related to low levels of anti-clotting proteins

Published in Law and Health Weekly, May 7th, 2005

Recurrent miscarriage, stillbirth, preeclampsia, poor fetal growth, preterm delivery, and bleeding in pregnancy are influenced by low levels of the anti-clotting proteins Z and S, Yale School of Medicine researchers report.

"Our findings will help clinicians determine early in pregnancy which women will have healthy pregnancies and which women will develop complications," said lead author Michael Paidas, MD, associate professor and director of the Program for Thrombosis and Hemostasis in Women's Health, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences at Yale School of Medicine. Paidas conducted the study with colleagues at the Bio-Reference Laboratory...

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