Preeclampsia, a life-threatening condition that strikes during pregnancy, may have a lot in common with Alzheimer’s and mad cow diseases, a new study suggests.
Misfolded proteins, including one involved in Alzheimer’s, clump in the urine of women with preeclampsia, researchers report in the July 16 Science Translational Medicine.
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