Pre-Eclampsia May Be Autoimmune Disease

Biochemists at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston say they are the first to provide pre-clinical evidence that pregnancy-induced high blood pressure or pre-eclampsia may be an autoimmune disease. Their research could provide novel diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities for this intractable disease. Findings appear online in Nature Medicine on July 27. Scientists in the laboratory of Yang Xia, M.D., Ph.D.

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Filed under: Hypertension on July 31st, 2008