Word: preeclampsia
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Dates: during 1993-1993
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Lalouel and other researchers, including Medical School Assistant Professor of Medicine Dr. Richard P. Lifton, examined DNA of women in Utah and Japan who had been diagnosed with preeclampsia. The mutation the study found lies in the gene coding for angiotensinogen, a protein involved in regulating blood pressure...
...finding is significant because a common diagnosis of preeclampsia is an increase in blood pressure, or hypertension, and the presence of excess protein in the urine...
Pregnancy brings about major physiological changes and it is possible that these changes reveal "the underlying differences" between those who develop preeclampsia and those who do not, Lalouel said, among those who inherit the preeclampsia genetic defect...
...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...