New Blood Biomarker Tests May Help Physicians Predict, Manage Preeclampsia

The AP (6/24, Ungar) reports that “at least one in 20 people who are pregnant develop a...complication called preeclampsia, a high blood pressure disorder that kills 70,000 women and 500,000 babies worldwide every year.” Until now, “there was no way to know when it might strike,” but “new blood tests may help doctors predict and manage this dangerous condition.” The diagnostics “measure ‘biomarkers’ for preeclampsia in the blood, objective measures that show what’s happening in an organism at any given moment.”