INDICES> Pre-eclampsia and aspirin

[Joel Lexchin <joel.lexchin@utoronto.ca>]

INDICES: Pre-eclampsia and aspirin
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At one point aspirin was believed to be helpful in preventing
pre-eclampsia but the most recent and largest of the studies found no
benefit.  I would not recommend its use.  The reference is:

Caritis S, Sibai B, Hauth J, Lindheimer MD, Klebanoff M, Thom E, et al.
Low-dose aspirin to prevent preeclampsia in women at high risk. N Engl J
Med 1998;338:701-5.

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