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Women at higher risk of later blood clots.(Brief Article)
2003 MAY 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Women with pre-eclampsia have a small but significantly higher risk of subsequent blood clotting (venous thromboembolism) compared with women diagnosed as having other common obstetrical diseases, finds a new study.
The study compared 12,849 women admitted to hospital with pre-eclampsia during their pregnancy with 284,188 controls. All women were observed for up to 3 years after discharge from hospital. Findings were published in the British Medical Journal
Venous thromboembolism was more common in the pre-eclampsia group than in any of the control groups. Women with pre-eclampsia were more than twice as ...
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