Antihypertensive drugs with ACE badly affect the fetus
According to researchers in the United States, if a woman regularly takes antihypertensive drugs (with ACE) during the first 3 months of pregnancy, the baby is born with a disability.
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ACE inhibitors, a substance commonly found in antihypertensive drugs, can adversely affect fetal development.
The study performed on 29,507 babies.
Results : Out of 209 children whose mothers used ACE-containing drugs during the first 3 months of pregnancy, 18 children had defects in their body parts, half of which had problems. heart.
The proportion of babies with disabilities, the children of mothers taking ACE-containing drugs, is 2.7 times higher than those who do not take these drugs.
Non-ACE-containing blood pressure medications do not carry this risk.
In the United States, ACE-containing drugs are only sold by prescription and here are about 149 million prescription drugs available each year.
Pregnant women and those planning to have a baby in the near future need to avoid medications with ACE as the advice given by the researchers.
Pediatrician William O.Cooper of the Vanderbilt Institute of Pediatrics - the leader of the study team said: "Recognizing this risk is very important for pregnant women as well as for their health care providers, to have can quickly change blood pressure medication ".
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