Study links Mediterranean-style diet during pregnancy to decrease in preeclampsia risk
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Dallas (Texas) [USA], April 20 (Ani): According to a new research, after the Mediterranean style diet during pregnancy is associated with reduced risks of preeclampsia. Black women seem to have the biggest risk reduction.The findings of this study were published in the ‘Journal of the American Heart Association’. Previous studies have found that participating in the Mediterranean diet, which consists mainly of vegetables, fruits, nuts, nuts, olive oil, seeds, and fish, reduce. Risk of heart disease in adults.
Preeklampsia, a condition during pregnancy is characterized by high blood pressure and liver or severe kidney damage, is the main cause of complications and deaths for unborn mothers and children. Preeklampsia also increases the risk of a woman over heart disease, such as high blood pressure, heart attack, stroke or heart failure, more than double life.
Women with preeclampsia have a higher risk of premature shipments (giving birth before 37 weeks of pregnancy) or low birth weight babies, and children born from mothers with preeclampsia are also at higher risk of high blood pressure and heart disease.Black women are at higher risk developing preeclampsia, but research on potential care for high-risk women is limited, according to research by researchers. The researchers investigated the Mediterranean-style diet association among a large group of diverse racial and ethnic women who have a high risk of preeclampsia.
“The A.S. has the highest maternal mortality rate among developed countries, and preeclampsia contributes to it,” said Anum S. Minhas, M.D., M.H.S., Chief Cardiology Fellow and Cardio-Obstetrics and Advanced Imaging Fellow at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.Given the health hazards in their mothers and children, it is important to identify the factors that can be modified to prevent the development of preeclampsia, especially among black women who are at the highest risk of serious pregnancy complications,” Minhas added.
This research includes data for more than 8,500 women listed between 1998 and 2016 in the Boston-born cohort. The average age of the 25-year-old participant, and they were recruited from the Boston Medical Center, which presented a low-income race and ethnic population dominated, low-income.Nearly half of the participants were 47 percent black women, about a quarter were Hispanic women 28 percent and the rest were white women from the “other” race, according to their own information on postpartum questionnaire.
The researchers created a Mediterranean style diet score based on participant responses to interviews and food frequency questionnaires, which were carried out within three days of childbirth.10 percent of research participants develop preeclampsia. Women who have a form of diabetes before pregnancy and pre-pregnancy obesity are twice as likely to develop preeclampsia compared to women without these conditions.The risk of preeclampsia is more than 20 percent lower among women who follow the Mediterranean style diet during pregnancy.
Black women who have the lowest Mediterranean diet score have the highest risk (78 percent) for preeclampsia compared to all other non-black women who adhere to the Mediterranean style diet.”We were surprised that women who often eat food in the Mediterranean diet significantly less likely to develop preeclampsia, with black women experiencing the biggest risk reduction,” Minhas said.
“It’s amazing because there are very few interventions during pregnancy found to produce meaningful benefits, and medical care during pregnancy must be approached carefully to ensure the benefits are greater than the potential risks for mothers and unborn children.”
Dallas (Texas) [USA], April 20 (Ani): According to a new research, after the Mediterranean style diet during pregnancy is associated with reduced risks of preeclampsia. Black women seem to have the biggest risk reduction.The findings of this study were published in the ‘Journal of the American Heart Association’. Previous studies have found that participating in…