Hyperemesis Gravidarum Transferred From Mother To Daughter

Hyperemesis Gravidarum Transferred From Mother To Daughter.
The daughters of women who suffered from a exacting technique of matinal sickness are three times more likely to be plagued by it themselves, Norwegian researchers report. This put up of matutinal sickness, called hyperemesis gravidarum, involves nausea and vomiting beginning before the 22nd week of gestation winter. In fierce cases, it can intimation to weight loss.

The condition occurs in up to 2 percent of pregnancies and is a proverbial cause of hospitalization for pregnant women. It is also linked with pornographic birth weight and premature birth, the researchers said. The unheard of study suggests "a likely influence of maternal genes" on the development of the condition, said be first researcher Ase Vikanes, a graduate student at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health in Oslo.

So "However, environmental influences along the doting line, shared jeopardy factors such as life styles reflected in BMI (body assemble index) and smoking habits, infections and nutrition might also be contributing to the advancement of hyperemesis gravidarum," she added. The arrive is published in the April 30 online number of the BMJ.

According to Vikanes, hyperemesis gravidarum was once expectation to be caused by psychological issues, "such as an unconscious rejection of the youth or partner". But her team wanted to see if genetics was indeed the culprit. For the study, Vikanes's team sedate data on 2,3 million births from 1967 to 2006. They tracked the prevalence of hyperemesis gravidarum in more than 500,000 mother-daughter pairs and almost 400,000 mother-son pairs.