Hypertensive disease of pregnancy

Hypertensive disease of pregnancy, also known as maternal hypertensive disorder, is a group of diseases which includes: preeclampsia, eclampsia, gestational hypertension, and chronic hypertension.^[1]

Maternal hypertensive disorders occurred in about 5.7 million women in 2013.^[2] About 10% of pregnancies, globally are complicated by hypertensive diseases.^[3] In the United States hypertensive disease of pregnancy affect about 8% to 13% of pregnancies.^[1] Rates have increased in the developing world.^[1] They resulted in 29,000 deaths in 2013 down from 37,000 deaths in 1990.^[4] They are one of the three major causes of death in pregnancy (16%) along with post partum bleeding (13%) and puerperal infections (2%).^[5]

References

1. Lo, JO; Mission, JF; Caughey, AB (April 2013). "Hypertensive disease of pregnancy and maternal mortality.". Current opinion in obstetrics & gynecology 25 (2): 124–32. doi:10.1097/gco.0b013e32835e0ef5. PMID 23403779.
2. Global Burden of Disease Study 2013, Collaborators (22 August 2015). "Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013.". Lancet (London, England) 386 (9995): 743–800. PMID 26063472.
3. WHO recommendations for prevention and treatment of pre-eclampsia and eclampsia. (PDF). 2011. ISBN 978-92-4-154833-5.
4. GBD 2013 Mortality and Causes of Death, Collaborators (17 December 2014). "Global, regional, and national age-sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013.". Lancet 385: 117–71. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61682-2. PMC 4340604. PMID 25530442.
5. "40". Williams obstetrics (24th ed.). McGraw-Hill Professional. 2014. ISBN 9780071798938.

External links

• Hypertensive disease of pregnancy at DMOZ