Will want to evaluate relevant factors in pregnancy and how they can influence pregnancy-induced hypertension among women of child-bearing age (15-44 years).
Hypertension is the most common medical problem affecting pregnancy, around 3% overall; classified as
Chronic hypertension
Preeclampsia-eclampsia
Preeclampsia superimposed on chronic hypertension
Gestational hypertension / pregnancy-induced hypertension
Risk factors for PIH - hypertension, prior history, family history, young mothers, older mothers, multiple pregnancy, diabetes, renal disease, obesity...
predictors include uteroplacental doppler (uterine artery), biochemical markers (eg pappa)
Really depends what you are looking at and with what aim in mind.
Hi,
It is common in Preganancy. Preganancy is induced the hypertension.
Kindly refer the following links:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9396882
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12366481
http://www.nature.com/nrneph/journal/v3/n11/full/ncpneph0623.html
http://americanpregnancy.org/pregnancy-complications/pregnancy-induced-hypertension/
http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/30/Supplement_2/S246.full
Just to add another publication that might help you.
It´s a very recent publication that can also have a good review on the matter.
Hope this helps
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25455008
Dear Dr. Chima Nwakwuo
Hypertension is the most common medical problem encountered during pregnancy, complicating 2-3% of pregnancies. Hypertensive disorders during pregnancy are classified into 4 categories, as recommended by the National High Blood Pressure Education Program Working Group on High Blood Pressure in Pregnancy :Chronic hypertension, Preeclampsia-eclampsia, Preeclampsia superimposed on chronic hypertension, Gestational hypertension (transient hypertension of pregnancy or chronic hypertension identified in the latter half of pregnancy).
Regards,
If it were only that simple. For example, "in cases of toxemia or pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH), the physician should suspect hyperthyroidism in the presence of systolic hypertension with an inappropriate low diastolic blood pressure, a wide pulse pressure, also seen in other conditions such as aortic insufficiency, peripheral A–V fistula and Paget’s disease of the bones." See Hyperthyroidism in pregnancy, Best Practice & Research Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 267–288, 2004
doi:10.1016/j.beem.2004.03.005
available online at http://www.sciencedirect.com
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