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ALVAREZ PONCE, Vivian Asunción; ALONSO URIA, Rosa María; MUNIZ RIZO, Milagros  y  MARTINEZ MURGUIA, Josefina. Characterization of pregnancy-induced hypertension. Rev Cubana Obstet Ginecol [online]. 2014, vol.40, n.2, pp.165-174. ISSN 0138-600X.

Introducción: hypertensive disorders during pregnancy have an incidence from 10 to 15 % of pregnant women a term, which is a significant cause of maternal morbidity and fetal mortality. Objective: to characterize patients with hypertensive disease during pregnancy in women at medical practice 85-02 Villa 1 from Julio Antonio Mella Polyclinic from January 1st, 2008 to December 31st, 2011. Methods: a descriptive, prospective, longitudinal study was conducted. The sample consisted of 73 pregnant women. Results: 5.9 % of adolescents developed preeclampsia, 28.6 % of patients aged 35 or older, 10.3 % were nuliparous, and 14.3 % of pregnant women had excess body weight. There were only 2.7 % of maternal morbidity and 9.5 of infnts presented morbidity, although none corresponded to patients with preeclampsia. Only 6 patients had preeclampsia. Conclusions: adolecence, nuliparity, obesity, and underweight were not predominant factors in the development of hypertemnsive pregnant-induced disease in this study.

Palabras clave : hypertensive disease; preeclampsia.

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