“Pre-eclampsia reduces the flow of blood through the placenta, and can lead to stillbirth or even the death of the mother. It happens between 26 and 32 weeks of gestation.”
A Daily Mirror newspaper article from 23 September reported on a recent study which investigated the use of the diabetes drug metformin to treat pre-eclampsia. Pre-eclampsia is a serious and potentially fatal condition related to pregnancy which affects blood pressure and protein loss.
In the article, the Daily Mirror states that pre-eclampsia “happens between 26 and 32 weeks of gestation”, meaning from 26 to 32 weeks of pregnancy. However, this was actually just the timing for recruitment of pregnant women into the study.
As stated on the NHS website, and in other sources, pre-eclampsia can occur from around 20 weeks into pregnancy until approximately a few weeks after birth.
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