Pregnancy test predict risks

Dec. 25: scientists have a life-saving test, can the predictions, what women with high blood pressure in pregnancy will continue to have complications developed. Pre-eclampsia is up to 10 pregnant women, causes high blood pressure and protein in the urine. Only a minority of women with the condition go on to develop life-threatening complications, but all must be closely monitored. The only cure is early to deliver the baby, but doctors have a fine balancing act, to test, what women need be induced early because you sure can carry your baby at risk of complications to term. Now researchers at University of British Columbia in Canada, a collection of measures and testing predictions to have that in 100 women with pre-eclampsia in full blown eclampsia, where can the mother suffering seizures will develop into a coma and die slip found. The results are published in the Lancet medical journal. A calculation on data on the mother formulated researchers characteristics, past medical history available symptoms; Cycle characters; Results of the kidney, blood and liver tests; and fetal assessment tests such as fetal heart rate and estimated weight. Tested the calculation on more than 2,000 women with preeclampsia, from 13 percent went complications develop. No died. The calculation called FullPIERS, more than three-quarters of women, the events as high risk later, had while only 16% of the population was incorrectly identified as high risk identified. Older tests could be compared to these findings abandoned and by easier, save money on laboratory costs, said the researchers are replaced. Co-author Peter Dadelszen, the child and family Research Institute, University of British Columbia, writes: "the FullPIERS model identifies women at increased risk of negative results up to seven days before complications arise and can change this, direct patient care (E.g. timing of delivery, place of care), improve to inform the design of clinical trials and biomedical investigations into pre-eclampsia."Although the model making process is not completed, we hope that the scheduled external validation (through prospective data collection and use of the received international databases) and the implementation of FullPIERS to reduce the risk of life extension change lives (e.g., stroke) and life-threatening helps (E.g. eclampsia) complications, pre-eclampsia make so important. "In an accompanying commentary article Gary Darmstadt by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, family health Division, in Seattle, said:" high blood pressure in pregnancy and pre-eclampsia challenge the public health community because of the need to protect at the same time the mother and the baby and weighing sometimes competing needs to accelerate or decelerate the end of pregnancy. ""This study focuses primarily on maternal results but also affects the neonatal health. High blood pressure in pregnancy and pre-eclampsia... calls for more cooperation between maternal and neonatal health experts. "We hope that this new knowledge... countries in effective use in low-income and middle-income, be translated and thus to its greatest advantage, used to save the lives of mothers and babies."

View the original article here