3 Topic Commentaries

Biomarker may flag early pregnancy risk

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  Ivana Mari, PhD

  Pediatrics; maternal–fetal health

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  Stanford Medicine (Stanford University School of Medicine)

  The advantage of predicting early in pregnancy who will get preeclampsia is that we could follow moms more closely for early symptoms.

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  Nima Aghaeepour, PhD

  Biomedical data science; maternal–fetal health

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  Stanford University School of Medicine

  We learned that a urine test fairly early on during pregnancy has a strong statistical power for predicting preeclampsia.

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  Louise C. Laurent, MD, PhD

  Obstetrics and Gynecology; maternal–fetal medicine

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  UC San Diego School of Medicine

  The ability to identify pregnancies at high risk for developing preeclampsia would be of great value to patients and their doctors to better personalize prenatal care. This would enable prompt detection and optimal management of pregnancies that develop preeclampsia. And the information could be used to better identify participants for research studies testing preventive therapies.

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