Abstract

DIAGO CABALLERO, Dalis; VILA VAILLANT, Flora; RAMOS GUILARTE, Elsy  and  GARCIA VALDES, Roberto. Risk factors in pregnancy-induced high blood pressure. Rev Cubana Obstet Ginecol [online]. 2011, vol.37, n.4, pp. 448-456. ISSN 0138-600X.

INTRODUCTION: hypertension provoked by pregnancy is one of the more frequent entities involving the pregnancy; its prevalence is of 10% and is of the first causes of mother death and of a low birth weight. OBJECTIVE: to identify the risk factors of pregnants with hypertension provoked by pregnancy admitted in the Perinatology service. METHODS: across-sectional and retrospective research was conducted in 40 patients with arterial hypertension during pregnancy at 2010 admitted in the Perinatology service of the 10 de Octubre Maternal and Infantile Hospital. Some epidemiological factors were analyzed including: type of hypertension, age, parity, family pathologic history of hypertension, placenta previa, renal disease and twins pregnancy. RESULTS: the chronic hypertension and added pre-eclampsia were the more frequent complications. From the total of hypertensive patients more than 50% had risk factors and of them, the family pathologic history and obesity occupied the first places. Most of patients presenting with pre-eclampsia were adolescents and nullipara. CONCLUSION: it is necessary to insist on the risk factors leading to a triggering of this disease as well as on the self-care of these patients.

Keywords : hypertension; pregnants; risk factors.

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