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Prepregnancy kidney dysfunction may up preterm birth risk

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Prepregnancy kidney dysfunction may up preterm birth risk MedPage Today Women with prepregnancy creatinine levels above the 95th percentile had an increased risk for induced preterm birth before 37 weeks of gestation, compared with those with prepregnancy creatinine at or below the 95th percentile, researchers reported in CMAJ. The findings, based on data involving 55,946 pregnancies, also showed that women with abnormally elevated levels of serum creatinine had a greater risk of stillbirth. READ MORE

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