Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy are an evolutionary adaptation to mitigate the reproductive consequences of the human physique

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 796-801

  Ayuk, Paul T Y ^a  

^a NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; INSULIN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BODY SIZE; CELL ACTIVATION; CEPHALOMETRY; DELIVERY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FEMALE; FETOPLACENTAL UNIT; FETUS GROWTH; GAIT; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LABOR; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MEDICAL CARE; PELVIS; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREDICTION; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

ACCLIMATIZATION; BODY CONSTITUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PREGNANCY-INDUCED; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, HEMATOLOGIC;

EID: 33746113794     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2006.04.027     Document Type: Article

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