The highest risk for hypertensive disorders was seen in pregnancies conceived during spring and summer, revealed new research.
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‘Vitamin D may have caused the observed seasonal variation in the hypertensive disorders of pregnancy including gestational hypertension and preeclampsia.’
Of 50,665 women included in the study, 8.5% were diagnosed with a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy. There appeared to be increasing risk when conceiving during the spring and early summer, peaking midsummer, and subsequently decreasing steadily during the autumn to reach a low by winter. Seasonal variations in vitamin D levels may help to explain these findings. "It has long been assumed that vitamin D affects the pathogenesis of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy--including preeclampsia--and our results support this hypothesis," said lead author Christine Rohr Thomsen, of Aarhus University Hospital, in Denmark.
Source-Eurekalert
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