Maternal and Paternal Height and the Risk of PreeclampsiaNovelty and Significance [Preeclampsia]

The etiology of preeclampsia is unknown. Tall women have been found to have lower incidence of preeclampsia. This points to a possible biological causal effect but may be because of socioeconomic confounding. We used paternal height as an unexposed control to examine confounding. The MoBa (Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study) was used to extract data on parental heights, maternal prepregnancy weight, other background factors, and pregnancy outcomes for 99 968 singleton births. Multiple logistic regression was used to estimate odds ratios for preeclampsia according to parental height. The adjusted odds ratio for preeclampsia was 0.74 (95% CI, 0.66–0.82) for women>172 cm as compared with women 186 cm was 1.03 (95% CI, 0.93–1.15) compared with men

Source: Hypertension - March 7, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Yunsung Lee, Per Magnus Tags: Preeclampsia Original Articles Source Type: research