BACKGROUND The potential impact of employment on maternal health, particularly in relation to gestational hypertension and pre-eclampsia, has been subject to research. However, there is limited evidence on associations between shift work and long working hours on the incidence of these conditions. AIMS To evaluate potential associations between maternal shift work and long working hours durin...

Dramatic hemodynamic alterations occur during a normal, healthy pregnancy with the kidneys playing a major role to ensure that these adaptive changes occur properly. Therefore, it is not surprising that a significant number of women may develop new onset renal dysfunction or exacerbation of preexisting renal disease during pregnancy. Perhaps the most commonly encountered gestational disorder is...

Background: Hypertension is the most common problem facing by pregnant women. Nowadays in developing countries one of the major causes for maternal and fetal mortality is gestational hypertension disorders. Even though most of the existing studies were concluded that ABO blood groups of mother have an association with PIH but its etiology is still uncertain. The objective of the present study i...

BACKGROUND Changes in the microvasculature associated with pre-eclampsia and gestational hypertension have been proposed as a potential pathway in the development of cardiovascular disease. We examined whether gestational hypertensive disorders, such as pre-eclampsia and gestational hypertension, are related to the maternal retinal microvasculature status after pregnancy. METHODS This study i...

OBJECTIVES To identify any effects that lead, calcium, magnesium, and zinc may have on the development of gestational hypertension. METHODS Third-trimester 110 normotensive and 33 gestational hypertension cases were assayed for various metal levels, using standard techniques, including atomic absorption spectrometry. RESULTS Gestational hypertension cases showed significantly higher blood l...

The objective of this study was to evaluate and compare risk factor patterns in association with preeclampsia and gestational hypertension. The data were collected from The Swedish Medical Birth Register and include all nulliparas aged 34 years or less who gave birth at the University Hospital of Uppsala, Sweden, during 1987-1993. Of these 10,666 women, 4.4% developed gestational hypertension, ...

OBJECTIVE The relationship between gestational hypertension, preeclampsia, and the risk of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) remains unclear. Thus, we used a large cohort database to study the influence of maternal gestational hypertension and preeclampsia on the occurrence of ROP in preterm infants. METHODS We used data from a previous retrospective cohort study that includes 25,473 eligible ...