Word: preeclampsia
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Multiples, as opposed to singletons, are more likely to be born premature (the more fetuses, the earlier labor occurs). The risk of miscarriage is higher. Cesarean sections are utilized more frequently. Gestational diabetes, hypertension and preeclampsia can all occur. Multiple births can also create potential long-term health implications for the children, like cerebral palsy. In the short term, in many multiple-birth situations, newborns are at greater risk of birth complications and death, though notably, all eight of the kids born to "Octomom" Nadya Suleman earlier this year survived...
...time they were discharged than those without. Stroke wasn't the only vascular condition in pregnancy to be more common among migraine sufferers. The results, presented last week at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology, showed a link between migraine and everything from heart attack to preeclampsia. There was no association with non-vascular conditions, like pneumonia or post-partum infection. "This lends credibility to the vascular mechanism of migraines," says lead researcher Cheryl Bushnell, an assistant professor in neurology at Duke. It's also generally recognized that the pain of a migraine headache is caused...
Nobody understands those risks better than Zach's parents, Sean and Terri Noble. Terri, 34, suffered from pregnancy-induced high blood pressure, a condition that can often be treated if caught early enough but that in Terri's case led to severe preeclampsia and the emergency C-section that saved her life--and that of her tiny son. His life, she says, "is a miracle." The true miracle, however, might be to keep babies like Zach from being born too soon...
...satisfied with the definition [of preeclampsia itself]," Lalouel said, which often makes it difficult to make positive diagnoses of preeclampsis...
...This study] provides the first potential example of a specific gene which may be--and may be is in big words--associated with preeclampsia," Williams said...