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Is There Any Correlation Between Pre-eclampsia, HELLP Syndrome And Type 1 Diabetes?

Posted on Mon, 19 Dec 2016

Question: My wife has recently became a type 1 diabetic. She is 23 years old and was healthy until this. She has no family history of type 1 diabetes. She had severe preeclampsia and HELLP Syndrome with our child during her pregnancy. What I am trying to find out is if the preeclampsia and HELLP Syndrome caused her Diabetes. Also he blood pressure during 3rd trimester was always high (185/? on average). She also had severe edema. She started loosing vision in the left eye and she also had back pains as well. Please Help. Thank You

Answered by Dr. Aarti Abraham (1 hour later)

Brief Answer:
As below

Detailed Answer:
Hello
Thanks for trusting us with your health concern.
There is no corelation between pre eclampsia, HELLP syndrome and type 1 diabetes.
Having a mother who had history of pre eclampmsia is a risk factor for the child developing type 1 diabetes later on in life.
But not applicable to this scenario.
All the best.
PLease feel free to discuss further.

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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Veerisetty Shyamkumar