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]

About 10% of pregnancies, globally are complicated by hypertensive diseases.^[2] 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.^[3] They are one of the three major causes of death in pregnancy (16%) along with post partum bleeding (13%) and puerperal infections (2%).^[4]

References

1. 1 2 3 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. ↑ WHO recommendations for prevention and treatment of pre-eclampsia and eclampsia. (PDF). 2011. ISBN 978-92-4-154833-5. 
3. ↑ 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. 
4. ↑ "40". Williams obstetrics (24th ed.). McGraw-Hill Professional. 2014. ISBN 9780071798938. 

External links

• Hypertensive disease of pregnancy at DMOZ