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Hispanic heritage is an independent risk factor for preeclampsia
Published in Women's Health Weekly, July 22nd, 2004
"Preeclampsia and gestational hypertension are leading complications of pregnancy that also portend increased risk of future chronic hypertension. Although rates of chronic hypertension differ between non-Hispanic Caucasian and Hispanic women, few studies examined their relative rates of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy," said M. Wolf and associates at Harvard University.
Wolf's group "[compared] the risk of preeclampsia and gestational hypertension in a prospective cohort of normotensive, nulliparous Hispanic (n=863) and non-Hispanic Caucasian women...
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