Prevention of toxemia of pregnancy in Ecuadorian Andean women: Experience with dietary calcium supplementation
Bulletin of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
; 25(2),1991 graf
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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
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Collection:
04-international_org
Database:
PAHOIRIS
Main subject:
Pre-Eclampsia
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Calcium, Dietary
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Eclampsia
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Ecuador
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Hypertension
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Hypocalcemia
Country/Region as subject:
America do sul
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Ecuador
Year:
1991
Document type:
Article