title: Noninvasive ambulatory blood pressure control in normotensive pregnant women.
abstract: Twenty-four hour noninvasive, automatic and ambulatory control of blood pressure (BP) was carried out on 11 normotensive pregnant women in the third trimester of pregnancy with a Del Mar Avionics Model 1978 Pressurometer III System at 7.5 min intervals during 24 h. The patients kept a detailed record of their activities during those 24 h. BP increased from 9 AM to a peak between 7 and 10 PM. Mean (+/- SD) waking and sleeping values were 110.56 +/- 6.68 mm Hg and 96.5 +/- 10.01 mm Hg, respectively, for systolic BP, and 71.41 +/- 5.35 mm Hg and 62.82 +/- 5.47 mm Hg, respectively, for diastolic BP. There was a significant difference in systolic and diastolic BP between sleeping hours and waking hours. We believe that 24-h control of BP behavior in normotensive pregnant women allows us to adequately diagnose hypertensive disease in pregnancy.
authors.affiliation: Juan A. Fernández Hospital, II Chair of Obsterics, University of Buenos Aires School of Medicine, Argentina.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Margulies
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Zin
authors.forename: N D
authors.initials: ND
authors.lastname: Margulies
authors.forename: L S
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Voto
mesh_terms: D000553:Ambulatory Care; D001795:Blood Pressure Determination; D002940:Circadian Rhythm; D003971:Diastole; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy / Q000502:physiology*; D011263:Pregnancy Trimester, Third; D012016:Reference Values; D012890:Sleep / Q000502:physiology; D013599:Systole; D014851:Wakefulness / Q000502:physiology