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pre-eclampsia

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noun

  1. pathol a toxic condition of pregnancy characterized by high blood pressure, protein in the urine, abnormal weight gain, and oedema Compare eclampsia
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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In this way, Dr Chrastil says, "we can determine whether any of these changes could help predict things like postpartum depression or understand how something like pre-eclampsia could affect the brain".

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A pregnant woman may also be at risk if she is pregnant for the first time, is 35 or older, has a body mass index greater than 30, or has a family history of pre-eclampsia.

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“I’ve started to ask the patient's parents, ‘When you were pregnant, did you have pre-eclampsia, hypertension or diabetes?’

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Scientists have grown "mini-placentas" in a laboratory to help them better understand pre-eclampsia.

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She suffered from pre-eclampsia and had to have labor induced, then experienced a difficult delivery and developed mastitis afterward.

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