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Familial risk of preeclampsia in Newfoundland: a population-based study.
Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN - 1 Jul 2002
Dawson Lesa M, Parfrey Patrick S, Hefferton Donna, Dicks Elizabeth L, Cooper M Jim, Young David, Marsden Philip A
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This study sought to quantify the familial risk of preeclampsia (proteinuric hypertension) in Newfoundland and to identify characteristics in probands that predict increased familial risk. Reviewed were 5173 obstetric charts from 10 hospitals, representing 99% of deliveries on the island of Newfoundland for a 1-yr period from April 1996 to March 1997; pregnancy-induced hypertension was diagnosed according to...
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