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Something We Can Learn from Immigrants  Image courtesy iStock Photo New immigrants import something we need more of: good health. When physicians compared pregnant new immigrants to Western nations with long-term residents who were also pregnant, they found that the immigrants had fewer complications. Specifically, according to the Canadian Medical Association Journal, newer immigrants suffered less from maternal placental syndrome, defined as pre-eclampsia or eclampsia, separation of the placenta from the uterus, or sudden blockage of the blood supply to the placenta. The placenta acts as a filter between baby and mother, taking out many harmful substances and sending in good ones like nutrients and oxygen. In the study of 785,009 women, the syndrome was more common in women who had been living in Ontario for five or more years before having their babies, according to the journal. Other factors that impact the health of the placenta, such as high blood pressure, obesity and smoking, increased the longer women had lived in Ontario. |
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