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Prevention of toxemia of pregnancy in Ecuadorian Andean women: Experience with dietary calcium supplementation

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1991
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López-Jaramillo, Patricio
Félix, Mónica de
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Abstract
Pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH) is a significant cause of low birth weight and maternal and neonatal death around the world. This article reviews work indicating that dietary calcium supplementation can sharply reduce the PIH incidence among pregnant women whose regular diet is calcium-poor. It also describes physiologic conditions prevailing during pregnancy that could explain calcium's major role in PIH- as well as supplemental calcium's great potential for preventing PIH among people with low-calcium diets
 
Available in spanish in Bol. Oficina Sanit. Panam 110(2):126-135, 1991
 
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Bulletin of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO);25(2),1991
Subject
Pre-Eclampsia; Hypocalcemia; Calcium, Dietary; Hypertension; Eclampsia; Ecuador
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https://iris.paho.org/handle/10665.2/27098
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