Women with preeclampsia five times more likely to have end-stage kidney disease

Women with preeclampsia five times more likely to have end-stage kidney disease

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Jul 31 2019

Women with preeclampsia during pregnancy have a five-fold increased risk of end stage kidney disease (ESKD) later in life compared to women who don’t develop preeclampsia during pregnancy, according to a new study published this week in PLOS Medicine by Ali Khashan of University College Cork, Ireland, and colleagues at the Karolinska Institute, Sweden and Liverpool University, UK.