University of Bergen

Pregnancy-related hypertension may boost risk of later kidney problems in women

Published in Physician Law Weekly, February 8th, 2006

Women who have a pregnancy complicated by preeclampsia or who deliver a low-birth-weight infant may be at elevated risk of kidney disease later, suggests a study from Norway.

"It is well known that preeclampsia is associated with later cardiovascular disease in the mother," comments Bjorn Egil Vikse of University of Bergen, Norway, lead author of the new report in the March 2006 Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. "Our study is the first to document a strong relationship between preeclampsia and low-birth-weight offspring and later clinical kidney disease in the mother."

The study included more than 756,000 Norwegian women who gave...

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Source: Physician Law Weekly (2006-02-08)

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