Millions of women at risk of malaria during pregnancy

Potential problems include undetected illness and anemia in mothers, stillbirth and low birth weight in newborns

Roughly 125 million women worldwide get pregnant in malarial regions each year, exposing them to a wide range of complications, researchers report online January 26 in PLoS Medicine.

HOT ZONES In 2007, approximately 125 million pregnancies occurred in malarial zones, comprising a majority of pregnancies worldwide.