[Blood pressure in women with essential hypertension during pregnancy]

Pol Arch Med Wewn. 2004 Mar;111(3):333-7.
[Article in Polish]

Abstract

I studied 84 pregnant women with mild to moderate essential hypertension, aged 22-40 (average of 29.5 + 5.4 years). After determination of pregnancy the existing hypertensive treatment has been stopped. Blood pressure measurements were performed twice every 3 minutes, with a mercury sphygmomanometer, at least 2 weeks after withdrawing hypertensive treatment, in a sitting position, on a left arm after 1 hour break. Among 84 women, the blood pressure of 36% ranged below 140/90 mm Hg at the end of 1 trimester. At the end of II trimester the percentage reached 54% and during the last trimester of pregnancy it has not changed significantly (52%). In the III trimester about 43% of all studied women showed the tendency of normalizing the blood pressure values to 135/85 mm Hg. Approximately 82% of women did not require pharmacological hypertensive treatment.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Blood Pressure Determination / methods
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Hypertension / diagnosis*
  • Hypertension / prevention & control*
  • Poland
  • Pre-Eclampsia / diagnosis
  • Pre-Eclampsia / prevention & control
  • Pregnancy
  • Pregnancy Complications, Cardiovascular / diagnosis*
  • Pregnancy Complications, Cardiovascular / prevention & control*
  • Pregnancy Trimester, First
  • Pregnancy Trimester, Second
  • Pregnancy Trimester, Third
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Risk Factors
  • Sphygmomanometers
  • Time Factors