Surf these sites: Aspirin No Cure for High Blood Pressure in Pregnancy -- A new study debunks earlier research showing that low dose aspirin helps prevent preeclampsia. Facts about Preeclampsia -- Information for patients from the American Academy of Family Physicians. Hypertension in Pregnancy -- Prevention, treatment, pathophysiology and etiology of preeclampsia and related disorders. Hypertension in Pregnancy -- Diagnostic criteria and management of pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH), preeclampsia and eclampsia. Job Stress and Preeclampsia -- Summary of a study assessing job stress to see whether pregnant women in high-stress work had a greater likelihood of developing preeclampsia. Pre-eclampsia Health Factsheet -- Explains the causes, symptoms, and treatment of pre-eclampsia. Preeclampsia -- Assessment, treatment and follow-up of preeclampsia. The Clinical Spectrum of Preeclampsia -- Though classically a disease of near-term first pregnancy, the chameleonlike presentation of preeclampsia makes the diagnosis at times difficult and in most circumstances presumptive. What Causes Preeclampsia? -- Summary of a study testing the theory that the increased vascular resistance may be secondary to an increase in activity in the sympathetic nervous system.
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