BACKGROUND Results from a number of long-term follow-up studies have suggested that hypertensive disorders in pregnancy are associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease later in life. More recently, this putative relationship has been substantiated with findings of elevated cardiovascular risk factors, such as lipid profiles and glucose, in women with a history of hypertensive pregn...

BACKGROUND We examined the risk of hypertensive disorders in relation to maternal depressive and anxiety disorders which were diagnosed before or during early pregnancy in Japanese women. METHODS We reviewed the obstetric records of all Japanese singleton deliveries at ≥ 22 weeks' gestation managed at the Japanese Red Cross Katsushika Maternity Hospital between 2009 and 2014. Potential risk f...

BACKGROUND After hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, more subjective cognitive complaints and white matter lesions are reported compared to women after normal pregnancies. Both have a causal relationship with Alzheimer's disease (AD). AIM To investigate if women whose pregnancy was complicated by hypertensive disorders have an increased risk of AD. METHODS A case-control study in women wit...

Background: To describe factors contributed to the maternal deaths occurred in the West Azerbaijan, Iran from 2002 through 2011. Materials and Methods: In a cross-sectional study, data on the maternal deaths obtained from the national maternal mortality surveillance system were analyzed. The three delays model was used so as to recognize contributing factors of maternal deaths due to obstetric ...

Hypertensive disorders are among the most common complications in pregnancy and a major cause of perinatal morbidity and mortality. The aim of this study was to investigate the risk factors and adverse perinatal outcomes of pregnancies in mothers with hypertensive disorders, as well as the adequacy of prenatal care during the wartime and postwar period in South-Western region of Bosnia and Herz...

Elevated blood pressure in pregnancy may represent chronic hypertension (occurring before 20 weeks' gestation or persisting longer than 12 weeks after delivery), gestational hypertension (occurring after 20 weeks' gestation), preeclampsia, or preeclampsia superimposed on chronic hypertension. Preeclampsia is defined as hypertension and either proteinuria or thrombocytopenia, renal insufficiency...

OBJECTIVE To examine trends in the rates of hypertensive disorders in pregnancy and compare the rates of severe obstetric complications for delivery hospitalizations with and without hypertensive disorders. METHODS We performed a cross-sectional study using the 1998-2006 Nationwide Inpatient Sample of the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project. Logistic regressions and population-attributabl...

Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy (HDP) affect 10% of pregnant patients and are the second most common cause of maternal mortality and adverse fetal outcomes in developed countries. HDP is a group of diseases that includes preeclampsia, eclampsia, pregnancy induced hypertension and HELLP syndrome. Inadequate placentation, immune intolerance and genetics are accounted as possible etiological f...