OT: Stillbirths are linked to an excess of hemoglobin

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Does anyone have any information on how this may tie in with some cases of

Blood Stasis and some cases of Hot Blood?

 

>Stillbirths are linked to an excess of hemoglobin

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> Tucson, Arizona Wednesday, 22 November 2000

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> Stillbirths are linked to an excess of hemoglobin

> THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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> CHICAGO - Women with high levels of hemoglobin in

>their blood early in pregnancy run an increased risk of stillbirths, a

>study suggests, offering a possible clue to a tragedy whose cause is often

>unknown.

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> In a Swedish study of 1,400 pregnant women, those

>with high hemoglobin early on faced nearly double the risk of having a

>stillborn child, which means a fetus delivered dead more than five months

>into pregnancy.

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> High levels of hemoglobin - the oxygen-carrying

>protein that gives red blood cells their pigment - can be caused by

>smoking, which also has been linked to stillbirths. But this study found no

>clear association between smoking and hemoglobin and lacked data on what

>caused participants' high levels.

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> Other causes of high hemoglobin include heart

>defects and an overdose of iron supplements.

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> The findings, from Dr. Olof Stephansson and

>colleagues at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, were published in

>today's Journal of the American Medical Association.

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> Problems with the placenta and birth defects are

>among causes of the estimated 250,000 U.S. stillbirths each year, but in

>more than 80,000 cases the cause is unknown.

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> Blood containing too much hemoglobin tends to be

>sticky and less able to flow through tiny blood vessels. That might disrupt

>blood flow to the placenta or developing fetus.

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