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I understand high risk pregnancies are primarily due to advanced age. won't healthy diet, weight, active, prior to pregnancy lessen high risk?
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Many causes: Advanced age is just one of reasons many other causes are high blood pressure, diabetes, small pelvis, family history of congenital malformations, bleeding, hiv, genital herpes , multiple pregnancies and many other reasons healthy diet weight active life does help and can not prevent high risk pregnancies.
Answered 4/6/2014
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