Perinatal Outcomes Associated With Management of Stage 1 Hypertension

Erin J Bailey1, Alan T N Tita, Justin Leach

  • 1Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, and University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, and Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, St. Luke's University Health Network, Fountain Hill, and Magee Women's Hospital and University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, University of Texas at Houston, Baylor College of Medicine, and Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, UTSouthwestern Medical Center, Dallas, and University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, Columbia University, New York, NYU Langone Hospital-Long Island, Mineola, and NewYork-Presbyterian Queens Hospital, Queens, New York, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana, University of Utah Health, Salt Lake City, Utah, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, Rutgers University-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, University of Colorado, Aurora, and Denver Health, Denver, Colorado, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, Stanford University, Palo Alto, and Arrowhead Regional Medical Center, Colton, California, and Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Michigan; the Department of Biostatistics, the Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, the Division of Cardiovascular Disease, Department of Medicine, and the Center for Women's Reproductive Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama; MetroHealth System, Cleveland, Ohio; Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, Utah; Ochsner Baptist Medical Center, New Orleans, Louisiana; Christiana Care Health Services, Newark, Delaware; St. Peter's University Hospital, New Brunswick, New Jersey; Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York; Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California; the Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, NHLBI, Bethesda, Maryland; and the Department of Women's Health, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas.

Obstetrics and Gynecology
|September 28, 2023
PubMed
Summary

Maintaining maternal blood pressure (BP) below 130/80 mm Hg in women with mild chronic hypertension is linked to better pregnancy outcomes. This target BP was associated with fewer severe complications and preterm births, without increasing the risk of small for gestational age infants.

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