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Causes
- The exact cause of a placental abruption may be hard to determine,But some factors may raise a woman's risk for it:
- History of placental abruption in previous pregnancy
- Long-term high blood pressure
- Sudden high blood pressure in pregnant women who had normal blood pressure in the past
- Heart disease
- Smoking
- drugs like Alcohol or cocaine use
- twins pregnancy or more
- Being older than 35
- Direct causes are rare, but include:
- Injury to the belly area (abdomen) from a fall, hit to the abdomen, or automobile accident
- Sudden loss of uterine volume (can occur with rapid loss of amniotic fluid or after a first twin is delivered)