title: The risk of pregnancy-induced hypertension: black and white differences in a military population.
abstract: The relationship between race and risk of pregnancy-induced hypertension was investigated in a cohort of active-duty military women who gave birth during the period 1987 through 1989. Cases were identified through hospital discharge diagnoses and included transient gestational hypertension, pre-eclampsia, eclampsia, and unspecified hypertension complicating pregnancy. Multivariate analysis showed nulliparous Black women to be at a slightly increased risk for all pregnancy-induced hypertension (risk ratio [RR] = 1.2) and for pre-eclampsia (RR = 1.3) compared with nulliparous White women. Black parous women were found to have a slightly reduced risk of all pregnancy-induced hypertension (RR = 0.77) and pre-eclampsia (RR = 0.38) compared with White parous women.
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
authors.forename: D E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Irwin
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Savitz
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Hertz-Picciotto
authors.forename: K A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: St André
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D044383:Black People; D015331:Cohort Studies; D016001:Confidence Intervals; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000208:ethnology*; D008889:Military Personnel; D016017:Odds Ratio; D011225:Pre-Eclampsia / Q000208:ethnology; D011247:Pregnancy; D011249:Pregnancy Complications, Cardiovascular / Q000208:ethnology*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012306:Risk; D044465:White People