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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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Characterizing Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy Among Medicaid Recipients in a Nonexpansion State.

TL;DR: The incidence of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) is on the rise in the United States, especially in the South, which has a heavy chronic disease burden and large number of pregnant women as discussed by the authors.
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Beneficial effects of nicotinamide on the mouse model of preeclampsia

TL;DR: In mouse models of PE, a high dose of nicotinamide shows great success in lowering blood pressure, correcting renal function and structure, prolonging pregnancy as well as increasing fetal weight/number.
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Assessment of endothelial dysfunction in pregnant women with obesity and preeclampsia.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the values of endothelial vascular growth factor (VEGF) in blood serum and circulating endothelial microparticles CD32+CD40+ in the peripheral blood of pregnant women depending on the severity of obesity and presence of preeclampsia.
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Microeconometrics: Methods and Applications

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WHO analysis of causes of maternal death: a systematic review

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Circulating Angiogenic Factors and the Risk of Preeclampsia

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Global burden of disease and injury and economic cost attributable to alcohol use and alcohol-use disorders.

TL;DR: The burden of mortality and disease attributable to alcohol, both globally and for ten large countries, is quantified and concludes that alcohol consumption is one of the major avoidable risk factors, and actions to reduce burden and costs associated with alcohol should be urgently increased.
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