Risk Factors
- Family history of pre-eclampsia
- Pre-existing hypertension
- Renal disease
- Diabetes mellitus
- Obesity
- Placental abnormalities:
- 1. Hyperplacentosis: Excessive exposure to chorionic villi.
- 2. Placental ischemia.
- Multiple gestation (twins or triplets, etc.)
- Age 35 or greater
- Adolescent pregnancy
- New paternity
- African American race
- Thrombophilias (anti-phospholoipid syndrome, protein C/S deficiency, factor V Leiden)
Read more about this topic: Gestational Hypertension
Famous quotes containing the words risk and/or factors:
“The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either a saint or a mediocrity.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)
“I always knew I wanted to be somebody. I think that’s where it begins. People decide, “I want to be somebody. I want to make a contribution. I want to leave my mark here.” Then different factors contribute to how you will do that.”
—Faith Ringgold (b. 1934)