title: Monitoring and evaluation of out-of-office blood pressure during pregnancy.
abstract: Blood pressure (BP) is important to measure during pregnancy because it provides the basis for classifying hypertension, which has several etiologies. Similarly, monitoring home and ambulatory BP can provide useful information outside a medical setting for adults who are not pregnant. Office BP is higher during early pregnancy in primiparous women than in multiparous women, whereas out-of-office BP does not differ between them. White-coat hypertension might be benign compared with hypertension determined from ambulatory BP values that might be associated with a high risk for preeclampsia. Although reference values have been proposed on the basis of the distribution of BP among normotensive pregnant women, prognosis-based reference values are also required.
authors: Division of Public Health, Hygiene and Epidemiology, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University Faculty of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.|Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.|Tohoku University, Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Sendai, Japan.
authors: Hirohito
authors: H
authors: Metoki
authors: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.|Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Osaki Citizen Hospital, Osaki, Japan.
authors: Noriyuki
authors: N
authors: Iwama
authors: Tohoku University, Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Sendai, Japan.
authors: Mami
authors: M
authors: Ishikuro
authors: Division of Public Health, Hygiene and Epidemiology, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University Faculty of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.
authors: Michihiro
authors: M
authors: Satoh
authors: Division of Public Health, Hygiene and Epidemiology, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University Faculty of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.
authors: Takahisa
authors: T
authors: Murakami
authors: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.
authors: Hidekazu
authors: H
authors: Nishigori
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000502:physiology*; D001795:Blood Pressure Determination / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D046110:Hypertension, Pregnancy-Induced / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D009819:Office Visits; D011247:Pregnancy