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More than 180 women participated in the study, conducted by the University Medical Center of Amsterdam in collaboration with ten other Dutch hospitals.
93 women received the potent Viagra drug during pregnancy because they were about fetuses that grew up too late. Another 90 women in the same situation received so-called placebo pills without effect.
Women who received Viagra have now lost 19 babies. Eleven of them are probably dead from a form of hypertension in the lungs, which researchers believe to be due to the drugs received by mothers.
Six other babies were also born with weakened lung function that, in the worst case, could have resulted in death. ] Women who received placebo pills, did you lose babies, but none of them because of a lung disease. Three other babies are born with impaired lung function.
The trial with Viagra is now stopped, as it is the case with a similar attempt in Canada following the warning of the Dutch researchers.
Dutch researchers pointed out that All the rules and say that infants who do not grow up as in their mother's life are at great risk.
Gynecologist Wessel Ganzevoort, who led the study, told the Volkskrant newspaper that Viagra was considered a promising drug.
– We wanted to show that it was an effective way to grow babies, but the opposite happened, he told the newspaper.
– The last thing you want to do is hurt the patients, he says.
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