Higher maternal blood pressure before pregnancy emerged as an independent predictor of subsequently delivering a boy.
Toronto: The sex of a baby may be predicted by the mother’s blood pressure, according to a new study which found that women with lower BP before pregnancy are more likely to give birth to a girl.
Researchers led by Dr Ravi Retnakaran, endocrinologist at the Mount Sinai Hospital in Canada, found that while higher blood pressure was an indication that a boy was more likely to be conceived, women with lower blood pressure tended to give birth to a girl.
This “suggests that a woman’s blood pressure before pregnancy is a previously unrecognised factor that is associated with her likelihood of delivering a boy or a girl,” said Dr Retnakaran.