To determine whether hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) are associated with cardiovascular (CV) morbidity and mortality within 10-20 years following delivery. Retrospective cohort study including all women who delivered ≥1 at ≥20 weeks’ gestation a single health system from 1996-2008. Women were excluded if they had CV risk factors prior to their first delivery or no follow-up the after ...

mild (140 to 159/90 to 99 mmhg) or moderate (160 to 179/100 to 109 mmhg) chronic arterial hypertension does not appear to cause headache. whether moderate hypertension predisposes patients to headache at all remains controversial, but there is little evidence that it does. ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in patients with mild and moderate hypertension has shown no convincing relationship b...

OBJECTIVE To investigate frequency and practise of termination of pregnancy for early-onset hypertensive disorders where the fetus is considered to be non-viable. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective cohort study in all Dutch tertiary perinatal care centres (n=10), between January 2000 and January 2014. All women who underwent termination of pregnancy, without fetal surveillance or intention to interve...

BACKGROUND Hypertensive disorders represent the major cause of maternal morbidity in middle income countries. The main objective of this study was to identify the prevalence and factors associated with severe maternal outcomes in women with severe hypertensive disorders. METHODS This was a cross-sectional, multicenter study, including 6706 women with severe hypertensive disorder from 27 mater...

how to cite this article: sharifian m. hypertensive encephalopathy. iran j child neurol 2012; 6(3):1-7. hypertension is called the silent killer and vital organs such as the brain, eyes,kidneys and the heart are the targets. seizure, central nervous system (cns)hemorrhage, and cerebrovascular accident (cva), blindness and heart attacksare the end points.the prevalence of hypertension in childre...

to evaluate the value of random urinary protein creatinine ratio in prediction of 24h proteinuria in hypertensive pregnancies. method: random urine samples and routine 24h urine collections were collected from hypertensive pregnant women (n=100). reliability of random urinary protein-creatinine ratio was assessed by receiver operator characteristic (roc) curve to detect significant proteinuria ...

intravenous hydralazine is a commonly administered arteriolar vasodilator that is effective for hypertensive emergencies associated with pregnancy. oral nifedipine is an alternative in management of these patients. in this study the efficacy of nifedipine and hydralazine in pregnancy was compared in a group of iranian patients. fifty hypertensive pregnant women were enrolled in the study. a ran...

AIM. To revisit the role of first trimester homocysteine levels with the maternal and fetal outcome. METHODS. This was a cohort study comprising 100 antenatal women between 8 and 12 weeks of gestation. Serum homocysteine levels were checked after overnight fasting. RESULTS. There were significantly elevated homocysteine levels among women with prior history of hypertensive disorders of pregnanc...

Hypertensive disorders are the most common medical complication of pregnancy, with an incidence of 5-10%, and a common cause of maternal mortality in the USA. Incidence of pre-eclampsia has increased by 25% in the past two decades. In addition to being among the lethal triad, there are likely up to 100 other women who experience 'near miss' significant maternal morbidity that stops short of dea...

Lipid disorders are a common clinical challenge in the western countries. In patients with dyslipemia (total cholesterol > 200 mg/dl, HDL cholesterol < 35 mg/dl, LDL cholesterol > 130 mg/dl and triglycerides > 150 mg/dl) it is mandatory to normalize blood pressure (<130/80 mmHg) as well to reduce LDL-C values to normal levels by using drugs to inhibit of endogenous and exogenous cholesterol, to...