the risk of pre-eclampsia increases significantly. A research team led by Professor Dr Frauke von Versen-Höynck, senior physician at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Hannover Medical School [...] blood pressure, often associated with increased protein excretion in the urine," says Professor von Versen-Höynck. In particularly severe cases, liver and kidney dysfunction and seizures can follow. At the [...] be detected in these pregnant women," says the physician. In the research project, Professor von Versen-Höynck and her team now want to examine and compare placenta and uterine mucosa samples from pregnancies