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Every year around 5,000 women in Sweden suffer from preeclampsia, a life-threatening condition for both mother and child. But the care and information for the affected women is lacking, according to studies from Lund University.
Many of the women who have taken part in the studies have had difficulty understanding complicated medical terms used by the healthcare staff.
– It is important that women know which symptoms they should pay attention to and those affected have the right to know what it means, what care is planned and what risks it poses later in life, says Maria Andersson, midwife at Skåne University Hospital in Malmö and PhD student at Lund University.
The only way to remedy preeclampsia (preeclampsia) is to initiate labor, sometimes before the pregnancy is full term.