How to Use preeclampsia in a Sentence

preeclampsia

noun
  • Of these, there were 1,138 cases of at-term preeclampsia.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 10 Apr. 2023
  • There would be some hard moments to come: preeclampsia treatment, 22 days in the NICU.
    Rachel Feintzeig, WSJ, 24 Jan. 2020
  • Mount Sinai said in court papers that the patient’s life was in danger due to preeclampsia.
    Stephanie Armour, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Then, during her 36th week, her pressure spiked — a sign of preeclampsia.
    Anna Gorman, Kaiser Health News, 12 July 2017
  • The new Nature study found that the patient’s BMI, age, and race were irrelevant to risk of preeclampsia.
    Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 9 Jan. 2022
  • Women who’ve had flu are more likely to have preeclampsia later on.
    Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Those 25 biomarkers were selected from a panel of 63 that had been shown to be related to preterm birth or preeclampsia.
    Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 7 June 2018
  • Eleni Tsigas likens her first experience with preeclampsia to a plane crash.
    Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The only way to resolve preeclampsia is to induce delivery.
    Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 18 July 2023
  • Research suggests that rates of preeclampsia and eclampsia are about 60% higher for black women than for white women.
    Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 14 Apr. 2020
  • Eclampsia is diagnosed when a woman with severe preeclampsia starts to have seizures.
    Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 14 Apr. 2020
  • Today a woman goes to a doctor or midwife and is asked a series of questions to determine preeclampsia risk.
    Katie Jennings, Forbes, 17 May 2022
  • What followed was anything but routine: Felix was diagnosed with a very severe case of preeclampsia that threatened the lives of her and her baby.
    Erin Delmore, NBC News, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Medical workers missed signs of preeclampsia, from which Black women are more likely to suffer.
    The Week Staff, The Week, 29 Apr. 2023
  • Even after thousands of studies, questions still linger about one of the most common diseases unique to pregnancy: preeclampsia.
    Cari Shane, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2023
  • About 10 days after the baby shower, at a routine checkup, Felix told her doctor that her feet had been swelling—unbeknownst to her, a sign of preeclampsia.
    Sean Gregory, Time, 8 July 2021
  • There was her high blood pressure, which developed into preeclampsia.
    Patia Braithwaite, SELF, 30 Sep. 2019
  • This year, more than 3.6 million women will give birth in the U.S. Around 4% of them will have a potentially fatal high blood pressure condition known as preeclampsia.
    Katie Jennings, Forbes, 18 May 2022
  • One, Nicole Blackmon, began to show warning signs of preeclampsia, and delivered a stillborn baby in the seven month of pregnancy.
    Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Eclampsia affects less than 3% of people with preeclampsia, according to the Cleveland Clinic.
    Sara Moniuszko, CBS News, 13 June 2023
  • The templates for my visits include questions about a lot of things — symptoms of labor or preeclampsia, milestones for growth and development.
    Alison Block, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2020
  • This may include birth defects, premature births, and preeclampsia, among others.
    Samantha Lauriello, Health, 14 Mar. 2023
  • The 16-year-old mother had dangerously high blood pressure from preeclampsia and said doctors told her that her baby would die or suffer brain damage.
    Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 2 July 2019
  • She was diagnosed with preeclampsia that left her needing an emergency C-section weeks before her due date.
    Essence, 13 Apr. 2022
  • This is at a time when the poorest women in America are at rising risk of maternal death, of which preeclampsia is a leading contributor.
    Jodi Frances Abbott, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2017
  • Born at 25 weeks by emergency C-section after Michelle was diagnosed with preeclampsia, Josie weighed only 1 lb.
    Aurelie Corinthios, PEOPLE.com, 20 Mar. 2018
  • With the birth of their first daughter, Shawde, in 2007, YoLanda was diagnosed with preeclampsia, a severe blood pressure disorder that can lead to serious injury or even death.
    USA Today, 31 July 2018
  • After the death of Karin as a result of preeclampsia, Arizona decides to throw her energy into fixing the maternal mortality rate in the U.S.
    Patti Greco, Cosmopolitan, 8 Mar. 2018
  • As a small child, Helen had begged for a little sister, but Susan had developed preeclampsia during her pregnancy, and had almost died.
    Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2021
  • A lot of women have problems with preeclampsia and eclampsia, that's dangerously high blood pressure in pregnancy.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 23 June 2023

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