Study reveals male link to preeclampsia
By Nathan Seppa
Women who suffer a pregnancy complication called preeclampsia seem to pass on the tendency to their daughters, research shows. A new study suggests that women who bear sons after having preeclampsia also convey some risk to their future daughters-in-law.
This seemingly odd conclusion stems from research at the University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City. There, scientists have found that men who were born of mothers with preeclampsia are twice as likely to father children through preeclamptic pregnancies as are men born of normal pregnancies.