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Article: Preeclampsia counseling: don't limit advice to childbearing years.(Women's Health)
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- Family Practice News
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- May 1, 2005
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NEW YORK -- Women who develop preedampsia should be counseled about the risk in subsequent gestations and strategies to contain these risks, according to Baha M. Sibai, M.D.
In addition, more general implications about health in later life should be discussed with the patient, said Dr. Sibai, professor and chairman of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Cincinnati. He made his report at an obstetrics symposium sponsored by Columbia University and New York Presbyterian Hospital.
About 20%-30% of women who have had an episode of preeclampsia will develop it in a subsequent pregnancy, which makes this history at least as significant a risk factor ...