In preeclampsia, which puts both mother and baby at risk, researchers have discovered that a midgestational rise in the hormone leptin, which most of us associate with appetite suppression, causes problematic blood vessel dysfunction and limits the baby s growth.
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Obesity and a high-salt diet are both bad for our hearts but they are bigger, seemingly synergistic risks for females, scientists report. We see younger and younger women having cardiovascular disease and the question is: What is the cause? says Dr. Eric Belin de Chantemele, physiologist in the Vascular Biology Center and Department of Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University. We think the fact that females are more salt sensitive and more sensitive to obesity are among the reasons they have lost the natural protection youth and estrogen are thought to provide.
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