�Preeclampsia, a condition that causes high blood pressure and other problems in about 5% of pregnancies, can significantly increase risk of exposure of development kidney bankruptcy later in life, according to a study promulgated on Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine, Reuters/Boston Globe reports.
For the study, Bjorn Vikse of the University of Berlin examined two databases to determine the relationship 'tween preeclampsia in pregnancies and the subsequent development of end-stage renal disease, or ESRD. Among all women who had given nativity, the annual risk for ESRD was one case per 27,000 women, and the condition appeared an average of 18 years later, according to the study. Risk for ESRD increased by 4.7 times among women who developed preeclampsia during their low gear pregnancy, by 6.4 times among women wHO developed the condition during each of their 2 pregnancies and by 15.5 multiplication among women who highly-developed the condition during 2 of at least trey pregnancies, the study institute.
The researchers wrote that the "inviolable risk of ESRD in women wHO have had preeclampsia is low, [and] preeclampsia is a marker for an increased risk of subsequent ESRD," adding, "The association was stronger if the preeclamptic pregnancy resulted in a down birthweight or preterm infant." In addition, researchers wrote that whether preeclampsia helped caused ESRD, or whether an rudimentary factor caused both conditions, remains undetermined (Emery, Reuters/Boston Globe, 8/21).
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