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Editorial
. 2018 Dec;72(6):1263-1265.
doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.118.11493.

Pregnancy, Preeclampsia, and Brain

Khaled Shawwa  1 , Niamh A McDonnell  1 , Vesna D Garovic  1
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Editorial

Pregnancy, Preeclampsia, and Brain

Khaled Shawwa et al. Hypertension. 2018 Dec.
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Disclosure: None of the authors declare competing financial interests.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.. Proposed pathway for preeclampsia affecting cognitive function
SFlt-1, soluble fms-like tyrosine kinase 1; AT-II: angiotensin II; CVD, Cardiovascular disease; CVA, cerebrovascular accidents; PRES: posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome; MRI, Magnetic resonance imaging; VEGF, vascular endothelial growth factor; and PlGF, placental growth factor.
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