Post-PE Cardiovascular Disease in US Military Women
The first study
A collaboration between US Military and civilian scientist Dr. Loewendorf, this study was published in 2024.
What was so DYNAMITE about it?
See table on the right, row 1-4. Four different races, largely comparable rates of preeclampsia. High rates, but comparable nonetheless.
In civilian literature, African Amercian women always have higher rates of preeclampsia (usually ~2 fold).
What's the equalizer in the US Military? Is it that all of the women have health insurance? That they all have fairly strenuous jobs (all of them are active duty military)?
The next study
We seek to repeat the study with added points of analysis as well as mine a civilian database with the same strategy to build a comparable dataset.
Cytokine - and urinalysis for stress markers and nutritional changes depending on feasibility.
What do we need/how can you help?
- are you a statistician and/or biostatistician US Military or non-military and are interested in this project?
- do you have access to a civilian database that we could do this study with (American Heart Association database for example?)
- are you in the US Military and are interested in collaborating with us?
- you want to give us money? We'll take it!
- publicity? Another idea? Bring it on! aLoewendorf@gmail.com