Response to the Letter “Clarifying Postpartum Renal Risk After Hemolysis, Elevated Liver Enzymes, and Low Platelet Count Syndrome”
Jean-Michel Halimi, Grégory Lailler, Valentin Maisons, Bénédicte Sautenet, Laurent Faucher, Jean-Baptiste de Fréminville, Jacques Blacher, Valérie Olié · 2026
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Jean-Michel Halimi and seven co-authors reply to a letter about their study of kidney risk after pregnancy hypertension. Their original work used national health records to compare later kidney outcomes after ordinary pre-eclampsia and after the severe HELLP form, which adds blood and liver breakdown. The critics questioned the handling of women who already had kidney disease. The reply notes such disease was documented in well under one percent of both groups.
The authors explain that kidney disease is under-recorded in the database, so removing only the flagged women would leave others in and bias the groups. They accept one correction: the first follow-up window is better described as six weeks to one year after birth, not the whole first year. They also defend comparing each disorder against healthy pregnancies, since their aim was clear risk figures for counseling.
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| CREATOR | Jean-Michel Halimi, Grégory Lailler, Valentin Maisons, Bénédicte Sautenet, Laurent Faucher, Jean-Baptiste de Fréminville, Jacques Blacher, Valérie Olié |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 3 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |