The risk of pregnancy-associated hypertension in women with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.
Young Mi JungSeung Mi LeeSubeen HongJa Nam KooIg Hwan OhByoung Jae KimSun Min KimSang Youn KimGyoung Min KimSae Kyung JooSue ShinErrol R NorwitzChan-Wook ParkJong Kwan JunWon KimJoong Shin ParkPublished in: Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver (2020)
Sonographic evidence of NAFLD at 10-14 weeks is an independent predictor of pregnancy-associated HTN. Circulating levels of SeP at that same gestational age are significantly increased in pregnant women with NAFLD who subsequently develop pregnancy-associated HTN.