Epidemiology of hypertension during pregnancy.
Hypertension during pregnancy, defined as a diastolic blood pressure of at least 90 mm Hg, occurs in about 7% of Western countries. Primiparity and familial factors are the most important risk factors. Fifty percent of women experienced blood pressure elevation as late as the last month of pregnancy.
Lindberg
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University Hospital, Uppsala.
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