Melbourne, FL – December 30, 2020 – The Preeclampsia Foundation announces the recipients of its 2021 Peter Joseph Pappas Research Grants, a funding program designed to accelerate preeclampsia research. Based on the recommendations...
Title: Vitamin D in the womb may be protective for babies born from pregnancies complicated by preeclampsia Article Title: Associations of Cord Blood Vitamin D and Preeclampsia With Offspring Blood Pressure in Childhood and Adolescence Catego...
How to Handle Prenatal and Postpartum Appointments, From Home Your doctor or midwife has asked you to use telehealth for some of your check-ups. That means using your smart phone camera or just a regular phone to report on how you’re doing. He...
November is Prematurity Awareness Month - a month dedicated to the more than 500,000 babies born too early each year in the US, about one-fifth of them due to preeclampsia. For many of us, this month is a reminder of the hours spent at the...
Filtering the Factors A new therapy may be developed for very preterm preeclampsia patients, if the results of a small pilot study are confirmed in a larger trial. Researchers have been looking for a safe way to prolong pregnancy by at least the 48...
Superimposed preeclampsia is preeclampsia complicating hypertension of another cause, most commonly chronic or "essential" hypertension. However women with hypertension associated with diabetes, pre-existing autoimmune disorders like lupus erythemato...
September 25, 2020 – Melbourne, FL –– The Preeclampsia Foundation is urgently calling for the development of biomarker tests for simple, rapid, and accurate diagnosis and prediction of preeclampsia, a life-threatening hypertensive d...
TREATMENT Results of a trial to test a new medication for preterm preeclampsia: the PRESERVE-1 Trial AJOG Preterm preeclampsia is a rare form of preeclampsia that occurs at 23-30 weeks of pregnancy. Preterm preeclampsia can result in the...
Recognizing Progress, Renewing Commitment In 1999, the National Institutes of Health referred to preeclampsia as a “rare and orphaned” disease, not because it was rare, but because it was “orphaned” – with no advocacy g...
Racial disparities is a fact of maternal health. We know that it has a significant impact on health outcomes for Black moms and their babies. But it's not enough to simply talk about those disparities. The Preeclampsia Foundation has launched a racia...
August 6, 2020 – Melbourne, FL – The Preeclampsia Foundation is seeking Letters of Intent for the Peter Joseph Pappas Research Grants funding program, designed to accelerate preeclampsia research. The ultimate goal of this grant pro...
RISK Early and late onset preeclampsia and small for gestational age risk in subsequent pregnancies PLOS One Having had preeclampsia before is a risk factor for having preeclampsia in future pregnancies. Because preeclampsia and fetal growth r...