Heart drugs could cut pregnancy risks

Pregnant women could benefit from a pioneering trial that will test whether heart disease drugs can be used to treat pre-eclampsia. Researchers are investigating if a class of drugs - known as statins - can prevent the potentially fatal condition. Pre-eclamspia affects up to eight per cent of pregnant women in the UK. Statins. The world's first trial on statins in pregnancy follows on from research showing that statins, which are prescribed to lower heart disease, could also help to decrease amounts of two proteins linked to inducing pre-eclampsia. Statins act on an enzyme that suppresses the production of these proteins - soluble FLt-1 and soluble endoglin. Trial.
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