title: Neonatal outcome of pregnancies complicated by hypertensive disorders between 34 and 37 weeks of gestation: a 7 year retrospective analysis of a national registry.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The objective of the study was to determine the neonatal morbidity in late preterm infants born from mothers with a hypertensive disorder.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data were obtained from the national Perinatal Registry in The Netherlands on women who delivered between 34(+0) and 36(+6) weeks with gestational hypertension (n = 4316), preeclampsia (n = 1864), and normotensive controls (n = 20,749).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Children from mothers with preeclampsia had an increased risk for admission to the neonatal intensive care unit compared with children from normotensive mothers (odds ratio [OR], 2.0; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.8-2.2). A cesarean delivery and decreasing gestational age were independent risk factors for neonatal respiratory morbidity. Gestational hypertension or preeclampsia reduced the risk of respiratory distress syndrome compared with the control group (OR, 0.81; 95% CI, 0.64-1.0 and OR, 0.69; 95% CI, 0.49-0.96, respectively).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Neonatal morbidity in the late preterm period is considerable. Hypertensive disorders appear to protect for neonatal respiratory morbidity, but higher rates of cesarean section diminish this protective effect.
authors: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Maastricht University Medical Centre, GROW-School for Oncology and Developmental Biology, Maastricht, The Netherlands. josje_langenveld@hotmail.com
authors: Josje
authors: J
authors: Langenveld
authors: Anita C J
authors: AC
authors: Ravelli
authors: Anton H
authors: AH
authors: van Kaam
authors: David P
authors: DP
authors: van der Ham
authors: Maria G
authors: MG
authors: van Pampus
authors: Martina
authors: M
authors: Porath
authors: Ben Willem
authors: BW
authors: Mol
authors: Wessel
authors: W
authors: Ganzevoort
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002585:Cesarean Section / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D005865:Gestational Age; D006801:Humans; D046110:Hypertension, Pregnancy-Induced / Q000453:epidemiology*; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D016015:Logistic Models; D009017:Morbidity; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D011225:Pre-Eclampsia / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011263:Pregnancy Trimester, Third; D012042:Registries / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012127:Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Newborn / Q000453:epidemiology; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D055815:Young Adult