title: Obstetric predictors of hypertension: A cross-sectional study of women attending the postnatal clinic of Jos University Teaching Hospital.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Hypertensive disease in pregnancy (HDP) accounts for high mother and child morbi-mortality and predict future cardiometabolic diseases. This study aimed to identify obstetric predictors of HDP needing preventive action to reduce its consequences; when women present to antenatal clinic (ANC).
  
  
  METHODS
  Cross-sectional descriptive this was an Interviewer-administered semi-structured questionnaire-based study of the anthropometric, and blood pressure measurementsin attendees at the postnatal clinic (PNC) of Jos University with ANC records.
  
  
  METHODS
  Six weeks postnatal clinic (PNC) of Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH).
  
  
  RESULTS
  The following indices proved predictive of HDP and subsequent hypertension: weight (P= 0.009), hip circumference (P= 0.018), parity (P= 0.043), waist circumference (P= 0.00), abdominal height (P= 0.040), waist/height (P= 0.020), history of developing hypertension in previous pregnancy (P= 0.000), birth weight of baby (P= 0.02), and mode of delivery (P= 0.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  To initiate preventive action on ANC registration in mitigating effects of or outrightly preventing HDP, careful check on anthropometry as well as history of hypertension or operative/preterm delivery in a previous pregnancy is necessary.
authors.affiliation: Department of Community Medicine, Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos, Nigeria.
authors.forename: Hadiza A
authors.initials: HA
authors.lastname: Agbo
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos, Nigeria.
authors.forename: Basil N
authors.initials: BN
authors.lastname: Okeahialam
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos, Nigeria.
authors.forename: Patrick H
authors.initials: PH
authors.lastname: Daru
keywords: Hypertension; Nigeria; obstetric; predictors