A population-based study of preeclampsia and eclampsia in Ecuador: ethnic, geographical and altitudes differences

• Main Authors: Eduardo Tejera (Author), Maria Eugenia Sánchez (Author), Aquiles R. Henríquez-Trujillo (Author), Yunierkis Pérez-Castillo (Author), Marco Coral-Almeida (Author)
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• 出版: BMC, 2021-02-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract Background In Ecuador eclampsia and preeclampsia were identified as the third cause of maternal death. Like other Latin-American countries, Ecuador has human settlements living from 0 to more than 4000 m of altitude and comprising a wide ethnic-diversity across all these altitude changes. T...