�Preeclampsia, a condition that causes high blood pressure and other problems in about 5% of pregnancies, can significantly increase risk of development kidney nonstarter later in life, according to a study published on Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine, Reuters/Boston Globe reports.
For the study, Bjorn Vikse of the University of Berlin examined 2 databases to determine the relationship between preeclampsia in pregnancies and the subsequent development of end-stage renal disease, or ESRD. Among all women who had given birth, the yearbook risk for ESRD was one subject per 27,000 women, and the condition appeared an median of 18 years later, according to the study. Risk for ESRD increased by 4.7 times among women who highly-developed preeclampsia during their first-class honours degree pregnancy, by 6.4 times among women world Health Organization developed the condition during each of their two pregnancies and by 15.5 multiplication among women who highly-developed the condition during two of at least trey pregnancies, the study found.
The researchers wrote that the "absolute risk of ESRD in women wHO have had preeclampsia is low, [and] preeclampsia is a marker for an increased jeopardy of subsequent ESRD," adding, "The tie-up was stronger if the preeclamptic gestation resulted in a low birthweight or preterm infant." In addition, researchers wrote that whether preeclampsia helped caused ESRD, or whether an inherent factor caused both weather condition, remains undetermined (Emery, Reuters/Boston Globe, 8/21).
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