Consuming a Mediterranean diet may help lower risk of preeclampsia: Study
Updated On: 23 December, 2022 10:45 PM IST | California | ANI
In addition to preeclampsia, the risk of gestational diabetes also decreased in women who more closely followed the heart-healthy diet
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A new study by researchers from the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai has shown that women who conceived while following an anti-inflammatory diet had a lower risk of developing preeclampsia during pregnancy. The finding was part of a study that was assessing the Mediterranean diet and unfavourable pregnancy outcomes.
The study, published in the peer-reviewed journal JAMA Network Open, also evaluated the association between the Mediterranean diet and other adverse pregnancy outcomes, including gestational diabetes and hypertension, preterm birth, delivery of a small-for-gestational-age infant and stillbirth.
"This multicenter, population-based study validates that a healthier eating pattern is associated with a lower risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes, the most exciting being a 28 per cent lower risk for preeclampsia," said Natalie Bello, MD, MPH, senior and corresponding author of the study and director of Hypertension Research in the Smidt Heart Institute, adding, "Importantly, this connection between the Mediterranean diet and lower risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes was seen in a geographically, racially and ethnically diverse population."
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