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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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Acknowledging and Addressing Allostatic Load in Pregnancy Care.

TL;DR: It is argued that there is a moral imperative to assign additional resources to reduce the effects of elevated allostatic load before, during, and after pregnancy to improve the health of women and their children.
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Considering environmental exposures to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) as risk factors for hypertensive disorders of pregnancy

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present epidemiological and mechanistic evidence for the link between per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and hypertension and recommend next steps for research and prevention efforts.
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Association of Maternal Preeclampsia with Neonatal Respiratory Distress Syndrome in Very-Low-Birth-Weight Infants.

TL;DR: It was revealed that maternal preeclampsia slightly increases the risk of severe RDS in VLBW infants, and other factors, such as gestational age, birth weight, female sex, and antenatal receipt of two or more steroid doses were significantly protective against RDS.
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SAFE@HOME: Digital health platform facilitating a new care path for women at increased risk of preeclampsia - A case-control study.

TL;DR: The results suggest that telemonitoring of blood pressure is feasible in a high-risk pregnant population and has the potential to profoundly change antenatal care.
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Microeconometrics: Methods and Applications

TL;DR: This chapter discusses models for making pseudo-random draw, which combines asymptotic theory, Bayesian methods, and ML and NLS estimation with real-time data structures.
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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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