The North Carolina State University researchers focused on preeclampsia as an autoimmune disorder, where the mother’s body regards the placenta as an unknown invader. The researchers compared genetic analyses of placenta from women with preeclampsia to women with normal pregnancies.

The study found placentas from preeclampsia patients had genes associated with a particular autoimmune pathway, and there was more genes present than in women with normal placentas. A particular enzyme involved in sialic acid modification was upregulated, meaning there was more of it present, which causes disruption in the body’s ability to identify invaders from non-invaders. Such a regulation disruption results in the body attacking itself.

The researchers hope their findings help pregnant women with preeclampsia and their babies, as medical experts might have a better idea of where the autoimmune effects is originating from. Preeclampsia is a serious condition where a pregnant woman’s blood pressure suddenly rises, posing a risk of stroke, seizure or organ failure in the mother. Preeclampsia occurs in 10 percent of pregnancies and causes about 15 percent of preterm births.

Researchers at Brown University and Women and Infants Hospital have also created a well defined animal model of preeclampsia. Study representatives report that the modal is the first pregnancy specific animal model and the predictive assay is the first where the researchers are able to go back to the first trimester to predict problems.

Based upon research that has shown to link the immune system secretion IL-10 with a successful pregnancy, researchers began experimenting with mice genetically engineered to lack IL-10.

The hypothesis was that if they isolated blood serum from human patients with preeclampsia and gave a dose of it to the mice that the mice would develop symptoms of preeclampsia. The significance of having an animal model for this pregnancy complication allows experiments that can shed light on the disease, its cause and its progression.

The findings of this study will enable physicians to predict and possible head off preeclampsia in the earliest stages of pregnancy eliminating the incidence of sudden unexpected symptoms and premature births or deaths caused by this frightening condition.
Pregnant women have enough medical things to worry about, being able to predict and treat a condition as dangerous as preeclampsia will make things less scary for expectant mothers and the entire process less traumatic for both mother and baby.

The increased risks to babies include being obese in childhood, being born prematurely or having certain birth defects or birth trauma including neural tube birth defects like spina bifida.

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Managing weight is never easy and the many changes that come along with pregnancy can make it even tougher.

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The best way to reduce risks is to achieve a healthy weight before becoming pregnant. During pregnancy, women who are in a normal weight range need only 300 additional calories daily to support a baby’s growth. Women who are obese may need less and women who are underweight or adolescents will need more. Those calories can be supplied by a simple snack such as one of these:

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• A couple of whole wheat crackers with peanut butter, a small glass of low fat milk and a small apple.
• Small yogurt with a handful of granola and a small orange.
• One cheese stick, a handful of walnuts, a few strawberries and a stick of celery with peanut butter.