title: Automated blood pressure measurement as a predictor of proteinuric pre-eclampsia.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the relation between antenatal clinic, obstetric day unit and 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure measurements and 24-hour proteinuria levels in hypertensive pregnancies.
  
  
  METHODS
  An observational study.
  
  
  METHODS
  Forty-eight women presenting with new hypertension after 20 weeks of gestation.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The closest relation was found between ambulatory blood pressure measurements and 24-hour proteinuria levels. No significant relation was found between the conventional diastolic blood pressure threshold of 90 mmHg and 24-hour proteinuria levels.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Ambulatory blood pressure measurement gives better information about disease status in pre-eclampsia as assessed by proteinuria than does conventional sphygmomanometry.
authors.affiliation: University of Leicester, UK.
authors.forename: A W
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: Halligan
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Shennan
authors.forename: P C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Lambert
authors.forename: S C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Bell
authors.forename: D J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Taylor
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: de Swiet
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000502:physiology*; D018660:Blood Pressure Monitoring, Ambulatory; D005260:Female; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D011225:Pre-Eclampsia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011262:Pregnancy Trimester, Second; D011296:Prenatal Diagnosis