Abstract

GONZALEZ RODRIGUEZ, Gonzalo et al. Hypertensive disease in pregnancy and its influence on some perinatal indicators of mortality and morbidity. Rev Cubana Obstet Ginecol [online]. 2003, vol.29, n.2, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-3062.

An analytical and descriptive study was performed on patients with gravidic hypertension, classified according to the criteria of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, from January 1998 to December, 2000 in "Julio R. Alfonso Medina" teaching gynecological and obstetric hospital in Matanzas province. The sample was made up of 956 females from a universe of 1 021, which represented an incidence of 9,5%. Primary data were taken from the medical histories and the register books. Variables were processed by statistical methods while summarized measures were estimated. A predominant number of patients with high blood pressure in pregnancy managed to reach full term pregnancy; this entity had no relation with the occurrence of preterm gestation in this study. The weight of newborns from hypertensive patients were within the weight parameters of over 2 500g in most of cases, but also a substantial number of them had low birthweight and intrauterine growth retardation. Apgar score was not affected in the sample by patients with gestational hypertension. There was no linking between hypertension in pregnancy and a significant number of fetal or neonatal deaths reflected in the statistical figures of the study.

Keywords : HYPERTENSION [epidemiology]; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; CARDIOVASCULAR; RISK FACTORS; INFANT MORTALITY; INDICATORS OF MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY.