Drug to Improve Fetal Growth May Impair Baby’s Postnatal Blood Pressure, Sugar Levels

Article title: Antenatal sildenafil citrate treatment increases offspring blood pressure in the placental-specific Igf2 knockout mouse model of FGR

Authors: J. Renshall, E. C. Cottrell, E. Cowley, C. P. Sibley, P. N. Baker, E. B. Thorstensen, S. L. Greenwood, M. Wareing, M. R. Dilworth

From the authors: “This study highlights the importance of assessing both the short- and long-term consequences of therapeutics administered during pregnancy.” 

This study is highlighted as one of February’s “best of the best” as part of the American Physiological Society’s APSselect program.

 

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