Aims: understand the concept of "Preeclampsia". This illness has two principal symptoms that affect pregnant women. One is high blood pressure and the other is present protein in the urine. The preeclampsia affect only pregnant women, putting in risk the life of the mother and new born too.
Methods: five years ago, in Chile was made a studying about the frecuency of this illness.The doctors made the observations in two groups of women how present this illness. In one of them were pregnant women between 25 and 38 years, and the other was in pregnant women over 40 years . The idea was to check, if the age was a variable to developing this illness, and the frecuency to present this problem. In U.S.A was made the same studying, with the same conditions.
Results: in Chile, the illness was more frequent to see in the group to women over to 40 years old than the other group with younger women. The percentage was between 5-8%, including all women. The frecuency in the group with women to 25 and 38 years old was between 4-6%, but in the other group was between 35-42%. In USA the percentage was between 12-15%.
Conclusions: women over 40 years increase the risk to get preeclampsia. The doctors should pay attention in those pregnant women and discarding any suspected of this illness, to prevent any other severe step that could developing the mother and/or baby.
Keywords: preeclampsia, high blood pressure, fetus and illness.
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