Pregnant Women With preeclampsia Risk Kidney Failure Late In Life
August 21st, 2008 | by admin |
Norwegian researchers have reported in a study that pregnant mothers who are diagnosed with preeclampsia during birth are at an increased risk of kidney failure years later.
Preeclampsia is a very serious medical condition and refers to a complication during pregnancy including high bloodpressure during pregnancy, protein in the mothers’ urine, and serious swelling.
The study found that for the first delivery a mother went through including the presence of preeclampsia, the risk of kidney failure later in life rose more than 4 fold.
For subsequent pregnancies including preeclampsia, the risk was more than 6 fold.
“Although the absolute risk of ESRD in women who have had preeclampsia is low, preeclampsia is a marker for an increased risk of subsequent ESRD,” the research team, lead by Bjorn Vikse of the University of Bergen, wrote in their report.
The study can be found in the New England Journal of Medicine.
