preeclampsia, the leading cause of death among pregnant women is a medical mystery and a phenomenon that every obstetrician dreads. Without warning, the blood pressure of a woman apparently healthy pregnant may arise; if the baby is not delivered immediately, she may die. Preeclampsia kills about 76,000 women worldwide each year, but we do not know the cause or how to prevent it. Now, a new study this week Science Translational Medicine shows that as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and mad cow disease, preeclampsia is characterized by a folding and clumped proteins. The discovery provides a new take on this complication of pregnancy, and highlights a potential biomarker, so that a simple urine test can definitively diagnose a disorder that missed a gold standard test.
For more, see the full article in this week issue of science .
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