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What is preeclampsia
Preeclampsia is a complication that occurs during pregnancy approximately 7% of pregnant women. It usually occurs after 20 weeks of pregnancy (second and third trimesters of pregnancy) manifesting with high blood pressure, swelling or fluid retention by reduced blood proteins, which are dumped into the urine. You can develop slowly during pregnancy or sharply towards the end.
Preeclampsia is different from gestational hypertension, in the first, apart from pressure elevation have protein in urine, while the second is just the pressure elevation. A mother with gestational hypertension may develop preeclampsia.
The causes of preeclampsia are still unknown but is thought to occur as a response from the body of the mother to certain components of the DNA of the father are now part of the baby. Can also believed to occur when there is proper circulation to the placenta for various reasons.
* Women with hypertension or diabetes prior to pregnancy.
* Women who suffer from lupus erythematosus, thrombophilia, renal failure.
* Family history of preeclampsia.
* Being a teenage mother or older.
* Suffering from obesity.
* Having a multiple pregnancy (twins, twins).
* Black Women.
* Recent research says that low levels of vitamin D during pregnancy may also predispose to suffer this disease.