Automated blood pressure measurement as a predictor of proteinuric pre-eclampsia.
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.
Halligan
A W
AW
University of Leicester, UK.
Shennan
A
A
Lambert
P C
PC
Bell
S C
SC
Taylor
D J
DJ
de Swiet
M
M
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