Dr. Melissa Ilardo

Yeah. You're putting yourself into a state of hypoxemia, so your oxygen is very low.

You're putting yourself into a state of hypoxemia, so your oxygen is very low.

Yeah, I mean, I think, well, that's one of the things that we're hoping to find from studying these women. So if they've evolved some kind of protective mechanism that protects them in the case of apnea, maybe that's something we could develop into a therapeutic that could be used to help prevent that same hypertensive disorder pregnancy in pregnant women who have apnea for other reasons.

Yeah, I mean, I think, well, that's one of the things that we're hoping to find from studying these women. So if they've evolved some kind of protective mechanism that protects them in the case of apnea, maybe that's something we could develop into a therapeutic that could be used to help prevent that same hypertensive disorder pregnancy in pregnant women who have apnea for other reasons.

Yeah, I mean, I think, well, that's one of the things that we're hoping to find from studying these women. So if they've evolved some kind of protective mechanism that protects them in the case of apnea, maybe that's something we could develop into a therapeutic that could be used to help prevent that same hypertensive disorder pregnancy in pregnant women who have apnea for other reasons.

Yeah, I mean, I think, well, that's one of the things that we're hoping to find from studying these women.

So if they've evolved some kind of protective mechanism that protects them in the case of apnea, maybe that's something we could develop into a therapeutic that could be used to help prevent that same hypertensive disorder pregnancy in pregnant women who have apnea for other reasons.

But otherwise, I would say I think preeclampsia used to be a death sentence for mothers and fetus, which is why it was such a strong driver of evolution. Now I think awareness of it enables treatment, but that's only something that's happened in the last I don't know how many decades. So that's why it could have been such a powerful force in this population.

But otherwise, I would say I think preeclampsia used to be a death sentence for mothers and fetus, which is why it was such a strong driver of evolution. Now I think awareness of it enables treatment, but that's only something that's happened in the last I don't know how many decades. So that's why it could have been such a powerful force in this population.

But otherwise, I would say I think preeclampsia used to be a death sentence for mothers and fetus, which is why it was such a strong driver of evolution. Now I think awareness of it enables treatment, but that's only something that's happened in the last I don't know how many decades. So that's why it could have been such a powerful force in this population.

But otherwise, I would say I think preeclampsia used to be a death sentence for mothers and fetus, which is why it was such a strong driver of evolution.

Now I think awareness of it enables treatment, but that's only something that's happened in the last I don't know how many decades.

So that's why it could have been such a powerful force in this population.

Yeah. I mean, you know, I'm not a maternal health specialist, but I do know that most mutations create non-viable embryos. And so, yeah, that's, I think that could certainly be driving the early miscarriages, especially.

Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, you know, I'm not a maternal health specialist, but I do know that most mutations create non-viable embryos. And so, yeah, that's, I think that could certainly be driving the early miscarriages, especially.

Yeah. I mean, you know, I'm not a maternal health specialist, but I do know that most mutations create non-viable embryos. And so, yeah, that's, I think that could certainly be driving the early miscarriages, especially.

I mean, you know, I'm not a maternal health specialist, but I do know that most mutations create non-viable embryos.

And so, yeah, that's, I think that could certainly be driving the early miscarriages, especially.

Yeah, because, I mean, a lot of proteins are involved in many, many systems. And so if you have a mutation that's problematic in one of those proteins that's involved in all these different systems, it's just going to start to go haywire very early on.