A complication of pregnancy that causes the mother’s blood pressure to rise – often fatally – is more common in women of African descent than any other. Research in Uganda by African and ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ researchers is helping to uncover why.
Deficiencies associated with spina bifida, heart defects and placental abnormalities.
Studies in La Paz, the highest city in the world, are helping to uncover a link between prenatal conditions and heart disease in later life.
Epigenetics is taking the biomedical research world by storm; three ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ scientists use examples from their own research to explain why.
Most pregnancies develop normally but when complications arise they can have devastating effects. Two recent initiatives in ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ hope to deliver a new understanding of events during this critical period of human life.
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