Prevalence of Hypertension Among Pregnant Women When Using the 2017 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Blood Pressure Guidelines and Association With Maternal and Fetal Outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy are a leading cause of maternal morbidity and mortality. The impact of applying recent guideline definitions for nonpregnant adults to pregnant women is unclear.

Objective

To determine whether reclassification of hypertensive status using the 2017 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) guideline definition better identifies women at risk for preeclampsia or eclampsia and adverse fetal/neonatal events compared with the current American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) definition of hypertension.

Design, setting, and participants

This cohort study used electronic medical record data of women who delivered singleton infants between 2009 and 2014 at a large US regional health syst

SUBMITTER: Bello NA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8013820 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature