Friday, December 23, 2016

Past Kidney Damage Linked to Pregnancy Problems

By Robert Preidt

HealthDay Reporter

THURSDAY, Dec. 22, 2016 (HealthDay Information) -- Ladies with prior kidney injury might have an elevated threat for being pregnant problems, a brand new examine suggests.

"We imagine that this examine highlights an essential discovering that will probably be helpful for medical suppliers caring for reproductive-age ladies," stated examine writer Dr. Jessica Sheehan Tangren, a nephrologist from Massachusetts Normal Hospital in Boston.

The researchers reviewed knowledge from virtually 25,000 ladies who gave delivery at Massachusetts Normal Hospital between 1998 and 2007. Simply over 100 of the ladies had beforehand skilled acute kidney damage. This can be a sudden lower in kidney perform.

All the ladies had recovered regular kidney perform earlier than they had been pregnant.

Ladies within the kidney injury group had a lot increased charges of a situation known as preeclampsia that causes hypertension and different issues throughout being pregnant -- 23 p.c in comparison with four p.c within the non-injury group.

Ladies who had kidney injury had been additionally extra prone to have small-for-gestational-age infants (15 p.c versus eight p.c), and to present delivery earlier (common 37.6 weeks in comparison with 39.2 weeks), the examine confirmed.

Tangren and her colleagues adjusted the findings to account for different components that might contribute to the danger.

Though the examine wasn't designed to show a cause-and-effect hyperlink, the researchers discovered prior kidney injury was tied to a virtually six instances increased threat for preeclampsia.

Ladies with earlier kidney injury additionally had greater than twice the danger for poor toddler outcomes.

The examine was printed on-line Dec. 22 within the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.

"Our objective in future research is to deal with why ladies with a historical past of acute kidney damage are at increased threat for being pregnant problems and to determine methods to decrease their threat," Tangren stated in a journal information launch.

She additionally stated that the various charges of preeclampsia seen worldwide could also be partly defined by the findings.

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SOURCE: Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, information launch, Dec. 22, 2016

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