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Short-term costs of preeclampsia to the United States health care system.

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In 2012, the cost of preeclampsia within the first 12 months of delivery was $2.18 billion in the United States ($1.03 billion for mothers and $1.15 billion for infants), and was disproportionately borne by births of low gestational age.
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This article is published in American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.The article was published on 2017-09-01 and is currently open access. It has received 183 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Population & Health care.

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Costs and Extra Length of Stay because of Neonatal Bloodstream Infection at a Teaching Hospital in Ghana

TL;DR: Neonatal BSI was significantly associated with prolonged LOS, and the continuous presence of experienced medical staff, as well as parents, to monitor newborns during their stay on the ward has enormous economic burden on both hospitals and caregivers.
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Who Is at Risk for Preeclampsia? Risk Factors for Developing Initial Preeclampsia in a Subsequent Pregnancy.

TL;DR: First pregnancy may serve as a window of opportunity to identify women at risk for future preeclampsia and other morbidities later in life, and complications in first pregnancy, including preterm delivery, perinatal mortality and gestational diabetes, are risk factors for primary preeclamping in second pregnancy.
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The prediction of preeclampsia: the way forward

TL;DR: The heterogeneity of preeclampsia has blighted efforts to predict early pregnancy early in gestation and has thwarted success in attempts at therapy with treatments, such as low-dose aspirin or global antioxidants as mentioned in this paper .
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Current State of Preeclampsia Mouse Models: Approaches, Relevance, and Standardization.

TL;DR: A comprehensive review of mouse models that exhibit PE-like symptoms and a proposed standardization of physiological characteristics for analysis in murine models of PE is provided in this article, where the authors compare effects across models and find that many of these approaches have aspects that lack physiological relevance to this human disorder and may interfere with therapeutic development.
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