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An estimated 50,000 women per year worldwide die from preeclampsia. Preeclampsia is more likely to develop in women whose mothers had preeclampsia than in women whose mothers did not.¹ The daughters-in-law of women who had preeclampsia are also somewhat more likely to have preeclampsia than other women. According to data on approximately 1.7 million births in Norway,² a woman who becomes pregnant by a man who has already had a child with a different woman who had preeclampsia during that pregnancy has a risk of preeclampsia that is nearly twice as high as that of a woman whose partner does . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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