title: [Blood pressure in women with essential hypertension during pregnancy].
abstract: I studied 84 pregnant women with mild to moderate essential hypertension, aged 22-40 (average of 29.5 + 5.4 years). After determination of pregnancy the existing hypertensive treatment has been stopped. Blood pressure measurements were performed twice every 3 minutes, with a mercury sphygmomanometer, at least 2 weeks after withdrawing hypertensive treatment, in a sitting position, on a left arm after 1 hour break. Among 84 women, the blood pressure of 36% ranged below 140/90 mm Hg at the end of 1 trimester. At the end of II trimester the percentage reached 54% and during the last trimester of pregnancy it has not changed significantly (52%). In the III trimester about 43% of all studied women showed the tendency of normalizing the blood pressure values to 135/85 mm Hg. Approximately 82% of women did not require pharmacological hypertensive treatment.
authors.affiliation: Instytut Kardiologii w Warszawie-Aninie.
authors.forename: Joanna
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Niegowska
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001795:Blood Pressure Determination / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D011044:Poland; D011225:Pre-Eclampsia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000517:prevention & control; D011247:Pregnancy; D011249:Pregnancy Complications, Cardiovascular / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D011261:Pregnancy Trimester, First; D011262:Pregnancy Trimester, Second; D011263:Pregnancy Trimester, Third; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012307:Risk Factors; D019722:Sphygmomanometers; D013997:Time Factors