Prevalence of elevated blood pressure in a village community with a high incidence of toxemia of pregnancy.
Blood pressure measurements were recorded in 95% of the men and 97% of the women aged 30 to 59 years in a small Israeli village populated by Jews of Kurdish origin and in which a high incidence of toxemia of pregnancy was previously observed. The prevalence of hypertension in the men, as well as in the women, was significantly higher in all age groups studied than in a sample of the general population. These findings support the hypothesis that toxemia of pregnancy is an expression of a preexisting hypertensive state rather than an etiological factor in the development of later hypertension in women.
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000453:epidemiology*; D007557:Israel; D007585:Jews; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011225:Pre-Eclampsia / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011247:Pregnancy